CREPT

Definition: CREPT

CREPT

1. Imp. & p. p. of Creep.

Imperative

1. Of Creep

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CREPT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: CREPT

Cause it was 4 in the morning, When you crept back in the bed (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Crept in your room (I Drove All Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

Crept out the back door (Praying For Time; performing artist: George Michael)

I've crept into your temple (Angels Would Fall; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

As I slipped out my bed, to your crib I crept (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith)

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Books

• Has Drg Creep Crept Up Decomposing the Case Mix Index Change Between 1987 and 1988 (reference)

• Trojan Horse in the City of God: How Godlessness Crept into the Sanctuary-And How to Thrust It Out Again (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Then the cold fingers left his wrist, and crept slowly upward toward his throat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

His grey beard almost touched the ground, as he crept onward.

Some crept on the ground as far as the top of the curve of the bridge, taking care that their shakos did not show over it.

He returned to Mercedes and, as he brooded upon her image, a strange unrest crept into his blood.

Since I am crept in favour with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

The women moved cautiously out of the doorways toward their men, and the children crept behind the women, cautiously, ready to run.

While I was under these circumstances, two rats crept up the curtains, and ran smelling backwards and forwards on the bed.

We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Norway

Inflation had been held to 2 to 3 percent during recent years, but has now crept over 3 percent. (references)

Panama

Unemployment crept upward in late 2000, rising to 13.3% from 11.6% earlier in the year, though private economists estimate Panama's underemployment to be approximately 25-30% of the population. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Arabic 

‏تسلل (infiltrate, infiltration, insinuate, nose, penetrate, percolate, permeation, plant, skulk, sneak, spy out, steal in, steal out, stealth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пълзях. (various references)

Chinese 

爬行 (Crawl, Crawled, Crawling, Creeping, creeps, scramble, scrambled). (various references)

Finnish

siihen on pujahtanut virhe (an error has crept in there). (various references)

French

glissement (creep). (various references)

German

schlich (ruse, slinked, tiptoed, trick, weaseled, wile), gekrochen (crawled, creeped, groveled, toadied, truckled). (various references)

Greek 

πληθ. του creep. (various references)

Hungarian

lopódzott. (various references)

Korean 

기�". (various references)

Pig Latin

eptcray

Romanian

trecut şi participiu trecut de la creep. (various references)

Russian 

ползать (crawl, creep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme od creep. (various references)

Spanish

pret y pp de creep. (various references)

Swedish

kröp. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sởn gáy (creep), sự rùng mình (creep, shudder), sự khiếp đảm (consternation, creep), sự hãi hùng sự bó (creep). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"CREPT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cepg, cept, cerot, clepht, clept, crat, creatt, Credta, Creeft, creeped, creepeth, creepit, creet, creit, Creith, crent, creot, crep, Crepet, crepp, crepy, cret, creta, crewp, crewt, cript, cripto, crit, cropt, curupt, frept, rept, wrept. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pert.

-2 letters: cep, pec, per, pet, rec, rep, ret.

-3 letters: er, et, pe, re.

+1 letter: carpet, copter, preact, precut, recept.

+2 letters: capture, carpets, chapter, copters, crumpet, cuprite, decrypt, encrypt, excerpt, paretic, patcher, percent, percept, perfect, picrate, picrite, picture, pitcher, plectra, porrect, preacts, precast, precent, precept, precuts, predict, prefect, prelect, pricket, project, prosect, protect, pyretic, receipt, recepts, repatch, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectra, spectre, triceps.

+3 letters: accepter, acceptor, apyretic, becarpet, calypter, captured, capturer, captures, carpeted, catnaper, cerotype, chapiter, chapters, computer, coparent, crepiest, crispate, crispest, crowstep, crumpets, cuprites, cutpurse, decrepit, decrypts, depicter, depictor, encrypts, entropic, excerpts, heptarch, herpetic, impacter, inceptor, leprotic, mercapto, operatic, outcaper, outprice, paretics, particle, patchers, patchier, pectoral, pentarch, percents, percepts, perfecta, perfecto, perfects, periotic, perlitic, petrolic, phreatic, picketer, picrated, picrates, picrites, pictured, pictures, piecrust, pitchers, pitchier, placater, plectron, plectrum, pocketer, portance, postrace, practice, practise, praefect, praelect, preacted, precasts, precents, precepts, precinct, precited, predicts, preelect, preenact, preerect, prefects, prelatic, prelects, prentice, pretence, priciest, prickets, projects, prosects, prospect, protects, puncture, reaccept, recarpet, receipts, receptor, rescript, resculpt, respects, scepters, sceptral, sceptred, sceptres, scripted, scripter, specters, spectral, spectres, spectrum, sprocket, sprucest, terpenic, uppercut.