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increep

verb

Etymology

From in- + creep.

  1. derived from *grewbʰ-✻ — “to turn, wind”
  2. inherited from *kreupaną✻ — “to twist, creep”
  3. inherited from *kreupan✻
  4. inherited from crēopan — “to creep, crawl”
  5. inherited from crepen
  6. prefixed as increep — “in + creep”

Definitions

  1. To creep in

    To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.

    • It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA