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creptverbpast tense of creep to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limitswater crept slowly over the top of the tub and onto the floor encroached, inched, wormed snaked, sneaked(or snuck)entrenched(also intrenched), impinged, infringed, intruded, invadedoverpassed, overran, overreached, overshot, overstepped to move or act slowlythat Friday afternoon we were just creeping, waiting for the bell to sound so that we could start the long weekend crawled, dallied, dawdled, delayed, diddled, dillydallied, dragged, lagged, lingered, loitered, lollygagged(also lallygagged), moped, poked, shilly-shallied, tarried fiddled (around), fooled around, messed around, monkeyed (around), played, pottered (around), puttered (around), trifledhung (around or out)(also hanged (around or out)), idled, loafed, lolled, loungedambled, eased, inched, lumbered, plodded, sauntered, shuffled, staggered, strolleddecelerated, slowed (down or up)filibustered, procrastinated, stalled, temporized dragged one's feet(also dragged one's heels), dropped behind, fell behind, hung fire, marked time, took one's time barreled(or barrelled), bolted, careered, coursed, dashed, flew, hastened, hotfooted (it), hurried, raced, ran(also chiefly dialectical run), ripped, rocketed, rushed, scooted, scudded, scurried, sped(or speeded), tore, whirled, whisked, whizzed, zipped bowled, breezed, darted, humped, hurtled, hustled, scrambled, stampededgalloped, jogged, ran(also chiefly dialectical run), sprinted, trottedaccelerated, quickened, sped (up)(or speeded (up))caught up, fast-forwarded, outpaced, outran, outstripped, overtook to move slowly with the body close to the groundthe kitten crept silently across the floor before suddenly pouncing on the mouse bellied, crawled, groveled(or grovelled), slid, slithered, snaked, wormed, wriggled crouched, squattededged, inched, nosedskulked, sneaked(or snuck), stole, tiptoed to move slowlythe class hour seems to creep by crawled, creaked (along), dragged, inched, limped, nosed, oozed, plodded, poked, slouched, snailed lumbered, shambled, shuffled, tramped, trudged flew, raced, sped(or speeded), whizzed, zipped floated, glided, sailedhurried, tore |