slip away
verb- To leave without being noticed. · I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can.
- To pass quickly, almost unnoticed. · The months slipped away and became years.
- To disappear; to elude one; to recede; to dwindle.
- To die peacefully. · He slipped away quietly in his sleep.
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He might slip away from us in the crowd of Regent Street, but it would puzzle him to do so upon the lonely moor.
“Now then,” said Andrea, while dressing himself, “I’ll wait till he leaves, and then I’ll slip away.”
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