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creep up

creep up verb: to advance or increase with stealth, unnoticed (literally or figuratively).

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To advance or increase with stealth, unnoticed (literally or figuratively).
    • The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.
    • Then I was forced to rest; and, sitting down on the ground, saw that the glimmering streak of light had faded, and that the awful blackness of the previous night was creeping up again.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC

creep up meaning in Telugu

creep up in Telugu

to creep up, crawl up
ఎగబ్రాకు egabrāku

Forms of creep up

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

Questions about creep up

What does creep up mean?
Creep up means to advance or increase with stealth, unnoticed (literally or figuratively).
What is creep up in Telugu?
Creep up in Telugu is ఎగబ్రాకు (egabrāku). See Creep up meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is creep up?
Creep up is a verb.
What is the past tense of creep up?
The past tense of creep up is crept up.

Words near creep up in the dictionary

  1. creep joints
  2. creep on
  3. creep out
  4. creep shot
  5. creep shots
  6. creep up
  7. creep up on
  8. creep-shame
  9. creep-shamed
  10. creep-shames
  11. creep-shaming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: creep up (page history and authors); ఎగబ్రాకు (Telugu) (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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