Meaning & use
crept
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Moved slowly, quietly, and carefully, especially to avoid being noticed.
See it in a sentence
She crept down the hallway so as not to wake the baby.
Doubt slowly crept into his mind as the evidence mounted.
A note on using this word
The past tense of "creep," which also gives us the related noun "creep," meaning an unpleasant or unsettling person.
Words with a similar meaning
crawledsneaked
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Words with an opposite meaning
strodemarched
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