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inchesnounpl. of inch 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 inchesverbpresent tense third-person singular of inchto advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limitsevery year the water inches further up the embankments, threatening to permanently engulf the island city creeps, encroaches, worms snakes, sneaksentrenches(also intrenches), impinges, infringes, intrudes, invadesoverpasses, overreaches, overruns, overshoots, oversteps to move slowlythe car inched carefully across the snow-covered causeway crawls, creaks (along), creeps, drags, limps, noses, oozes, plods, pokes, slouches, snails lumbers, shambles, shuffles, tramps, trudges flies, races, speeds, whizzes, zips floats, glides, sailshurries, tears |