What does slither mean?
Slither means (intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side..
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/ˈslɪð.əː/ · verb
(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side..
[Indiana:] Wave it at anything that slithers. [Marion:] The whole place is slithering!
She also had a map of the building, not that it was very large, and she'd memorized the layout. The guard station would be right around the corner, and there ought to be a counter about the height of a half-wall looking out over the corridor with only a bulletin board on the opposite wall. She crouched down, and slithered left.
Some snow slides recorded have exceeded a million tons and slithered down the mountain-side at a speed of 60 miles an hour.
I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween^([sic]) my fingers.
Use slither when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Slither means (intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side..
Common synonyms include slide.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[Indiana:] Wave it at anything that slithers. [Marion:] The whole place is slithering!
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