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increep

increep verb: to creep in; to make a furtive entrance.

Verb

increep (third-person singular simple present increeps, present participle increeping, simple past and past participle incrept)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
    • First, order gone, and doores not being kept, / By baptisme heaps of prophane do rush. / With them, at length, a ministry incrept, / That with the horn God's ordinance did push.1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons
    • It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.1922, Thomas Hardy, In The Small Hours

Forms of increep

third-person singular presentincreeps
present participleincreeping
past participleincrept
pastincrept

Origin of increep

From in- + creep.

Questions about increep

What does increep mean?
Increep means to creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
What part of speech is increep?
Increep is a verb.
What is the past tense of increep?
The past tense of increep is incrept.

Words near increep in the dictionary

  1. incredulity
  2. incredulosity
  3. incredulous
  4. incredulously
  5. incredulousness
  6. increep
  7. increeping
  8. increeps
  9. incremable
  10. incremate
  11. incremated

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