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power-creep

power-creep is the alternative form of power creep.

Meaning of power creep

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, collectible games, roleplaying games) To affect by power creep.
    • The power creep is more prominent in the DPS segment, as almost every future unit is designed to overshadow the existing characters. For instance, Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae has power crept almost every DPS in the game with his fluid gameplay and massive damage output with both F2P and frugal builds.2023 October 6, Akash Paul, “Is Honkai Star Rail power creeping units too fast?”, in Sportskeeda, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Nazara Technologies, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2026

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Forms of power-creep

third-person singular presentpower-creeps
present participlepower-creeping
past participlepower-crept
pastpower-crept
past participlepower-creeped
pastpower-creeped

Questions about power-creep

What is power-creep the alternative form of?
Power-creep is the alternative form of power creep.

Words near power-creep in the dictionary

  1. power zoom
  2. power-associative algebra
  3. power-associative algebras
  4. power-broker
  5. power-brokers
  6. power-creep
  7. power-creeped
  8. power-creeping
  9. power-creeps
  10. power-crept
  11. power-cycle

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