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increeps

increeps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of increep.

Meaning of increep

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

Questions about increeps

What is increeps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Increeps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of increep.

Words near increeps in the dictionary

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

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