C2 to move slowly, quietly, and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed:
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Slow and moving slowly
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[ C ] UK someone who tries to make someone more important like them by being very polite and helpful in a way that is not sincere:
C2 [ C ] an unpleasant person, especially a man:
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
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[ U ] the gradual growth or increase of something in a way that was not expected or wanted:
to cause someone to have uncomfortable feelings of nervousness or fear:
Frightening and scaring
past tense and past participle crept /krept/to move quietly and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed:
past tense and past participle crept to move very slowly:
a person you think is unpleasant and to be avoided:
to change very slowly, especially to increase:
slow and gradual change, especially when something increases:
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