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let slide

let slide verb: to let go; to allow; to release; to pass over without action.

Verb

let slide (third-person singular simple present lets slide, present participle letting slide, simple past and past participle let slide)

  1. (transitive) To let go; to allow; to release; to pass over without action.
    • Near-synonym: let ride
    • The police officer let the ticket slide when she found her brother-in-law's car illegally parked.
  2. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
  3. (transitive) To tolerate a violation of a norm from.
    • The judge let me slide on the speeding, but not on a $200 seat-belt violation.
    • I take it all, I let it slide
      But hey, you went too far this time2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten
  4. (idiomatic) To allow the condition of something to deteriorate due to negligence or apathy.
    • He let the farm slide after inheriting it from his father.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, slide.

let slide meaning in Bengali

let slide in Bengali

ছেড়ে দেওয়া, অনুমতি দেওয়া, মুক্তি দেওয়া

Synonyms of let slide

Forms of let slide

third-person singular presentlets slide
present participleletting slide
past participlelet slide
pastlet slide

Origin of let slide

From Middle English leten sliden (“to disregard, put aside, let pass, neglect”), equivalent to let + slide.

Questions about let slide

What does let slide mean?
Let slide means to let go; to allow; to release; to pass over without action.
What is let slide in Bengali?
Let slide in Bengali is ছেড়ে দেওয়া, অনুমতি দেওয়া, মুক্তি দেওয়া. See Let slide meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is let slide?
Let slide is a verb.
What is the past tense of let slide?
The past tense of let slide is let slide.

Words near let slide in the dictionary

  1. let oneself go
  2. let out
  3. let past
  4. let rip
  5. let sleeping dogs lie
  6. let slide
  7. let slip
  8. let someone down gently
  9. let someone go
  10. let someone have it
  11. let someone hold

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Adapted from Wiktionary: let slide (page history and authors); let slide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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