✅ Slide means to move in a smooth way, without any particular effort, either because or as if you’re on a smooth, slippery surface (We decided to put on socks and slide across the polished floor).

✅ Coast means to move without any particular effort because of momentum. This can be literal or metaphorical (We coasted for a while after turning off the engine; She coasted through life on her mother’s reputation).

✅ Although slide and coast are different kinds of motion, they both mean to move without effort, and sometimes without a lot of control over your direction or speed.

Don’t just coast through your day; take the opportunity to learn these synonyms!

✅ Float means to move lightly and gracefully, as if moving through the air rather than walking (She floated through the ballroom).

✅ Glide means to move smoothly and effortlessly. Glide can also mean to move quietly, especially so that you go unnoticed (She watched the tardy student glide into the room).

✅ Float and glide both describe graceful ways of moving and are generally used to suggest an almost supernaturally elegant, easy, or quiet way of moving (He glided down the hill; The dancers floated by as if they were pulled on strings).

✅ Float and glide both suggest elegance and so are often used to suggest related character traits such as decorum, class, and self-possession.

Glide right along and take a look at these synonyms!

✅ Wash means to clean something with water and generally soap (I need to wash the dishes).

✅ Launder means to wash, and sometimes also iron, clothes, towels, sheets, and similar things (I need to be careful when I launder my new dress).

✅ Wash is more general than launder and can suggest just cleaning.

✅ Launder suggests the whole process of cleaning, drying, and ironing (He brought his shirts to the dry cleaners to be laundered) and also can mean to conceal the source of money or remove embarrassing characteristics (They laundered their image before running for office).

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