sloping
Meaning of sloping
verb
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
The road slopes sharply down at that point.
- To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment
- (usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
- To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
The order was given to "slope arms".
noun
An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.
adjective- Having a slope.
a sloping roof
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Hyphenation of sloping
slop-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- sloping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
sloping synonyms
Meaning aslant:
aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped
Anagrams of sloping
Words that rhyme with sloping
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