crept
verb
creep
verb (used without object), crept, creep·ing.
verb (used with object), crept, creep·ing.
noun
Origin of creep
Synonyms for creep
Synonym study
Related Words for crept
slither, glide, slink, lurk, sneak, tiptoe, wriggle, snake, inch, pussyfoot, squirm, insinuate, skulk, writhe, grovel, edge, gumshoe, steal, scramble, wormExamples from the Web for crept
Contemporary Examples of crept
This was music that had to be crept up on, music to be learned from the ground up.
“It just crept up on me that the grace period is over,” Mulaney says about his subway-chase revelation that he was getting older.
At one point, my friends and I crept to my car with four giant kitchen knives in hand.
I crept to the door: the organ broke out overhead with a blare.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the ShowRobert W. Chambers
February 20, 2014
Bending, with a breaking heart, I touched the marble drapery with my lips, then crept back into the silent house.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the ShowRobert W. Chambers
February 20, 2014
Historical Examples of crept
A new respect for him, also a new pity that was generous and not contemptuous, crept into his heart.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
Hester crept gently towards it, and Amy after her, not attempting to stop her.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Into these last words there crept the pathos of one who knew.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
And into his thoughts now crept a doubt, one that alarmed his sense of justice.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
We crept along the cañon rim and saw our man at the bottom of it.
The Trail BookMary Austin