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slipping

slipping

1 2.1
A move across a slippery surface that often makes you lose balance
  • noun
  • /ˈslɪpɪŋ/
translation icon : resbalón
  • But the true terror is in the swiftness of changing forward or backward, slipping always just beyond our control.

Examples

  • ♪ Oh, I feel the hours ♪ Slipping ♪ ♪ While I stumble to the edge ♪ 'Cause I seem to forget -I haven't actually read this before.

    After Ever Happy (2022)

  • A Slipping-Down Life. Anne Tyler. Ballantine Ivy. 0-8041-0886-2.

    Academic text (2004)

  • And I'm like, well, then I feel the ground slipping underneath me and I don't know how bad it gets.

  • And I'm like, well, then I feel the ground slipping underneath me, and I don't know how bad it gets.

  • - Slipping.

    Beauty and the Least (2012)

  • I mean in "Slipping"

    Blog text (12)

  • For the April 1921 issue, Maurice Becker again used the planet and worker in his illustration "Not Slipping" (Fig. 6).

    Academic text (2002)

  • As she walked on the icy sidewalk, she felt a sudden slipping that nearly made her fall.

  • He lost his balance due to the slipping of the wet leaves on the ground.

  • The slipping of the rope caused the climber to panic as he struggled to regain his grip.

Synonyms

slip
vsslipping
8 1.0

An accidental sliding that makes you lose your balance

is the ongoing process of moving across a surface and losing control
slippage
vsslipping
  • Specialized
1 6.7

Loss of grip in a machine part that makes it slide, as when a belt slips on a wheel

is the general often human accidental sliding on slippery surfaces

Antonyms

stabilizing
  • US
1 3.7

Making something steady and less likely to change suddenly

How Uncontrolled

falling
111 1.1
to skid
3 3.5
slipping
1 2.1
sliding
2.8

Surface Forms

slipping singular
slippings plural

Morphology

slipping = slip (transparent) = slip + ing

The noun is transparently formed from the verb 'slip' plus '-ing' to denote the act or process of slipping.

Etymology

Slipping comes from the old English word slip, which meant 'to slide' or 'to glide', and you can see the same root in slippery and slipper. So slipping today means sliding across a surface, often by accident and losing your balance.