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# slink

«slink» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move quietly and sneakily, trying not to be seen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (slink, slinks, slunk, slinking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To slink is to move quietly and sneakily, trying not to be seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slink/#m1)

2) To slink away is to leave quietly, looking ashamed or hiding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slink/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in animal tales, a sly fox or a wild beast creeps off and hides from a bigger animal.

### examples

- The cat slunk under the table when the dog barked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slink/#x1)
- The Fox slunk away behind a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slink/#x2)
- He slinks off to his bed above the stove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slink/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The sun ariseth, they slink away, and couch in their dens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1845/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slink» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slink/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.