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increep

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, poetic

Examples

  • 1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons 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.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From in- + creep.