Word Meanings - SNEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked

Additional info about word: SNEAK

1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. Dryden. 2. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SNEAK)

• Skulk
• Hide
• sneak
• cower
• lurk
• abscond
• slink

Related words: (words related to SNEAK)

• ABSCOND
  1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
• SLINK
  1. To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. "To slink away and hide." Tale of Beryn. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent. Milton. There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. Landor. 2. To miscarry; -- said of
• SNEAK
  1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• SNEAKING
  Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
• SNEAKY
  Like a sneak; sneaking.
• ABSCONDENCE
  Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. Phillips.
• SKULKINGLY
  In a skulking manner.
• SNEAKSBY
  A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
• SKULK; SKULKER
  One who, or that which, skulks.
• SLINKY
  Thin; lank.
• SNEAKINESS
  The quality of being sneaky.
• SNEAK-CUP
  One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. Shak.
• COWER
  To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.
• ABSCONDER
  One who absconds.
• SKULK
  To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked
• SNEAKER
  1. One who sneaks. Lamb. 2. A vessel of drink. A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.
• DISLINK
  To unlink; to disunite; to separate. Tennyson.