Past tense of creep
irregular verb
The past tense of creep is crept or creeped. The past participle is also crept or creeped.
Forms of creep
| Base form (V1) | creep /kɹiːp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | crept /ˈkɹɛpt/ creeped /kɹiːpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | crept /ˈkɹɛpt/ creeped /kɹiːpt/ |
| Present participle | creeping /ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | creeps /kɹiːps/ |
Crept and creeped in a sentence
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- She crept up the stairs, keeping well into the side because she knew they were less likely to creak this way.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84
- That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.From the entry candle
- We crept out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children.From the entry on tiptoe
- The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.From the entry blindside
Meaning of creep
- verb To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- verb To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- verb To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
Verbs like creep
Questions about the past tense of creep
- What is the past tense of creep?
- The past tense of creep is crept or creeped.
- What is the past participle of creep?
- The past participle of creep is crept or creeped.
- Is creep a regular or irregular verb?
- Creep is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: creep (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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