Sneak Off

  

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Sneak Off

Definition: Sneak Off

Sneak Off

Verb

1. Leave furtively and stealthily; "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the balckboard".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sneak Off

Synonyms: slip away (v), sneak away (v), sneak out (v), steal away (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sneak Off

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Sneak Off

Language Translations for "sneak off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

odplížit se, odkrást se. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elsompolyog (to sneak away, to sneak off), eloson (to decamp, to jink, to play injun, to slide away, to slide by, to sneak away, to sneak off, to steal away). (various references)

   

Italian

  

svignarsela (levant, skive, slink off, slip away, slip out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eaksnay offay

   

Spanish

  

escabullirse (clear out, scurry away, scurry off, slink, slip away, slip off, sneak away, snuck, steal away, wriggle out of). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ออกไปเงียบๆ (sneak away). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sneak Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-k-n-o-s"

-2 letters: kenafs.

-3 letters: aeons, fakes, fanes, fanos, kanes, kaons, kenaf, kenos, koans, oaken, skean, snake, sneak.

-4 letters: aeon, anes, effs, eons, fake, fane, fano, fans, fens, foes, fons, kaes, kafs, kane, kaon, keas, kefs, keno, kens, koan, koas, naos, noes, nose, oafs, oaks, offs, okas, okes, ones, safe, sake, sane, sank, soak, sofa, soke.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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