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slipperwort |
slippery |
slippery dick |
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slipping
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slipping (root: slip)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective slipping has 1 sense
- slipping(s = adj.all) slithering - moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
THESAURUS
slipping
bad, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, degenerate, despaired of, deteriorating, disintegrating, done for, draining, drooping, dwindling, dying, ebbing, effete, expiring, facing death, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, given up, going, going to pieces, gone to seed, hopeless, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, languishing, low, marcescent, moribund, near death, nonviable, on the downgrade, out of condition, out of shape, out of training, pining, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, run to seed, rusty, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping away, slumping, soft, stiff, subsiding, tabetic, terminal, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening
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