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creep in

creep in verb: to begin to affect.

Verb

creep in (third-person singular simple present creeps in, present participle creeping in, simple past and past participle crept in)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to affect.
    • The more you work at meditation, the more you'll find serenity creeping in.
  2. (intransitive) To occur despite attempts to prevent it.
    • We have found that errors keep creeping in to your work.

creep in meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

creep in in Urdu

گھسنا

creep in in Malayalam

to creep in, squeeze through
നുഴയുക nuḻayuka

creep in in Kannada

ನುಸುಳ್, ನುಸುಳು, ನೂಳ್, ನೂಳು, ನುಗ್ಗು, ನೊಳೆ

Forms of creep in

third-person singular presentcreeps in
present participlecreeping in
past participlecrept in
pastcrept in

Words formed from creep in

Questions about creep in

What does creep in mean?
Creep in means to begin to affect.
What is creep in in Urdu?
Creep in in Urdu is گھسنا. See Creep in meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is creep in?
Creep in is a verb.
What is the past tense of creep in?
The past tense of creep in is crept in.

Words near creep in in the dictionary

  1. creener
  2. creeners
  3. creening
  4. creens
  5. creep
  6. creep in
  7. creep joint
  8. creep joints
  9. creep on
  10. creep out
  11. creep shot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: creep in (page history and authors); creep in (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); നുഴയുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); creep in (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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