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creep up

verb

Definitions

  1. To advance or increase with stealth, unnoticed (literally or figuratively).

    • The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.
    • Then I was forced to rest; and, sitting down on the ground, saw that the glimmering streak of light had faded, and that the awful blackness of the previous night was creeping up again.
    • Her exploration of emotion, too, is slightly muted. You have to stop and consult yourself. Pain — or joy or passion — creep up afterwards. These poems never hit you over the head.

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