creep
Base form
creep
/kriːp/
Past simple
crept
/krept/
Past participle
crept
/krept/
MeaningC1
to move slowly and quietly so as not to be noticed
to make your flesh creep
In use
- Negative · Form 1Don’t creep up on me like that!
- After a modal verb · Form 1We’ll have to creep past the baby’s room.
- Past simple · Form 2Last night I crept downstairs for a biscuit.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday a fox crept into our garden.
- Present perfect · Form 3Doubt has crept into her mind.
- Past perfect · Form 3By morning the cat had crept under the duvet.
Watch out
Crept drops the ee, like slept and kept: creept and crepted are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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