MEANING
To move quietly and furtively, often as if avoiding notice or showing shame.
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Words that belong together
- slink away
- slink through shadows
On the page
He slunk away before anyone could ask what he had heard.
A thin shape slinked through the gap beside the cabinet.
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Word forms
- Base
- slink
- Past tense
- slunk or slinked
- Past participle
- slunk or slinked
- Present participle
- slinking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- slink
- Present continuous
- am/is/are slinking
- Present perfect
- have/has slunk or slinked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been slinking
- Past
- slunk or slinked
- Past continuous
- was/were slinking
- Past perfect
- had slunk or slinked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been slinking
- Future
- will slink
- Future continuous
- will be slinking
- Future perfect
- will have slunk or slinked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been slinking
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: slink; slinks; slunk or slinked; slunk or slinked; slinking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: slinks.
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