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To have moved slowly and quietly.

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Usage examples (40)
  • And then there crept A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
  • Verb (used without object) : We crept up and peeked over the wall. ,The automobile crept up the hill. Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer...
  • Noun : That horror movie gave me the creeps
  • A new term crept into the American lexicon: stagflation.
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