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inch along

inch along verb: to move slowly or to make progress gradually, bit by bit.

Verb

inch along (third-person singular simple present inches along, present participle inching along, simple past and past participle inched along)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To move slowly or to make progress gradually, bit by bit.

Forms of inch along

third-person singular presentinches along
present participleinching along
past participleinched along
pastinched along

Questions about inch along

What does inch along mean?
Inch along means to move slowly or to make progress gradually, bit by bit.
What part of speech is inch along?
Inch along is a verb.
What is the past tense of inch along?
The past tense of inch along is inched along.

Words near inch along in the dictionary

  1. incestuous
  2. incestuously
  3. incestuousness
  4. incesty
  5. inch
  6. inch along
  7. inch away
  8. inch back
  9. inch by inch
  10. inch field
  11. inch fields

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