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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈslɪðə/Part of speech verbSorted ehilrstStarts with SEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly

Word origin

From Middle English slitheren, alteration of slideren (“to slither, creep”), from Old English slidrian (“to slip, slide, slither”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide, slither”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”), equivalent to slide + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch slidderen (“to slip, wriggle, slither”), German schlittern (“to slither, skid”). More at slide.

Used in a sentence

  • [Indiana:] Wave it at anything that slithers. [Marion:] The whole place is slithering!
  • Some snow slides recorded have exceeded a million tons and slithered down the mountain-side at a speed of 60 miles an hour.
  • I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween^([sic]) my fingers.

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