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inchnoun a very small distance or degreegive them an inch, and they'll take a mile ace, hair, hairbreadth(or hairsbreadth), hairline, hop, skip, and jump, neck, shouting distance, step, stone's throw bit, crumb, dab, iota, jot, minim, mite, particle, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), trace, trifle country mile, long haul, mile infinity, light-year an individual part of a process, series, or rankinginch by inch, we're making progress toward our fund-raising goal chapter, cut, degree, grade, notch, peg, phase, place, point, stage, step angle, aspect, facet, sideamount, measure, planedecrement, increment inches pl.the distance of something or someone from bottom to topmade the most of her inches by standing on her tiptoes to reach the top shelf inchverbto advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limitsevery year the water inches further up the embankments, threatening to permanently engulf the island city creep, encroach, worm snake, sneakentrench(also intrench), impinge, infringe, intrude, invadeoverpass, overreach, overrun, overshoot, overstep to move slowlythe car inched carefully across the snow-covered causeway crawl, creak (along), creep, drag, limp, nose, ooze, plod, poke, slouch, snail lumber, shamble, shuffle, tramp, trudge fly, race, speed, whiz(or whizz), zip float, glide, sailhurry, tear before the 12th century |