overslip

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of overslip

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
  2. (transitive)To omit or neglect.
    “to overslip time or opportunity”
    “Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]”

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Etymology

From over- + slip.

Words you can make from overslip

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7-letter words

3 words

6-letter words

34 words

5-letter words

79 words

4-letter words

79 words

3-letter words

4 words

Hooks

3 extensions · 1 front · 2 back

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