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If someone s_____ into or out of a place, they enter or leave it quickly and quietly, especially because they are trying to avoid or escape something.If someone slopes into or out of a place, they enter or leave it quickly and quietly, especially because they are trying to avoid or escape something.
She sloped off quietly on Saturday afternoon.
They sloped into their hotel at 6am.
word slope
full-definition
noun
A slope is the side of a mountain, hill, or valley .
Saint-Christo is perched on a mountain slope.
...the lower slopes of the Himalayas.
A slope is a surface that is at an angle, so that one end is higher than the other.
The street must have been on a slope.
The slope of something is the angle at which it slopes.
The slope increases as you go up the curve.
...a slope of ten degrees.
verb
If a surface slopes, it is at an angle, so that one end is higher than the other.
The bank sloped down sharply to the river.
The garden sloped quite steeply.
...a brick building, with a sloping roof.
...the gently sloping beach.
If something slopes, it leans to the right or to the left rather than being upright .
The writing sloped backwards.
He wonders why the digits on his calculator slope to the right.
If someone slopes into or out of a place, they enter or leave it quickly and quietly, especially because they are trying to avoid or escape something.
She sloped off quietly on Saturday afternoon.
They sloped into their hotel at 6am.
inflections slopesslopingslopedsloping
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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