crept
Inched along silently
Crept is the past tense and past participle of creep.
It describes slow, quiet, or stealthy movement: She crept down the stairs to avoid waking anyone.
Time or change creeps when it advances gradually and almost imperceptibly: Doubt crept into his mind.
Winter had crept up on them.
Moved to avoid detection
- slunkCrept away quietly
- tiptoedWalked on foot-ends quietly
- prowledMoved stealthily about
- skulkedMoved to avoid detection
lurked · inched · sidled · stalked · slithered · glided · edged · wormed
Moved gradually, bit by bit
- crawledMoved on hands and knees
- edgedHad a border
- wormedMoved by sly persistence
- draggedPulled heavily along
plodded · shuffled · meandered · dawdled · ambled · sauntered · moseyed · lumbered
Made or kept cold
- unsettledNot yet resolved
- unnervedMade anxious or unsettled
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- spookedFrightened into alertness
frightened · startled · alarmed · disturbed · tingled · shivered · goosebumps · hair-raising
To distribute widely
- encroachedGradually overstepped boundaries
- advancedFar along in development
- infiltratedEntered covertly, secretly
- seepedLeaked out gradually
pervaded · insinuated · overtook · invaded · extended · expanded · diffused · permeated
sneaked
Moved to avoid detection
skulked · lurked · inched · sidled · stalked · slithered · glided · edged · wormed · snuck
inched
Moved gradually, bit by bit
dragged · plodded · shuffled · meandered · dawdled · ambled · sauntered · moseyed · lumbered · trudged
chilled
Made or kept cold
spooked · frightened · startled · alarmed · disturbed · tingled · shivered · goosebumps · hair-raising · eerie
spread
To distribute widely
- encroachedGradually overstepped boundaries
- advancedFar along in development
- infiltratedEntered covertly, secretly
seeped · pervaded · insinuated · overtook · invaded · extended · expanded · diffused · permeated · intruded
- creep upApproach gradually, unnoticed
- crept upApproached without detection
- creeps outCauses visceral discomfort
- give someone the creepsCause instinctive revulsion
- creeping outCausing uneasy discomfort
- the creeps
creepy, creep, creeping, creeps, creeper, creepers, creepiness, creepily, creepiest