glide
/ˈɡlaɪd/ verb B2- To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
- To cause to glide.
- To pass with a glide, as the voice.
He/she/it glides · Past glided · Past participle glided · -ing form gliding
Verb forms
- Base form
- glide
- He/she/it
- glides
- Past
- glided
- Past participle
- glided
- -ing form
- gliding
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Immediately a brilliant light from the next room, or rather from the palace adjoining, shone upon the room in which he was gently gliding into his last sleep.
Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.
The eight oars fell into the sea simultaneously without splashing a drop of water, and the boat, yielding to the impulsion, glided forward.
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