crept up
Moved silently closer
Crept up is the past tense of creep up, meaning to approach stealthily or gradually.
A predator creeps up on prey; old age creeps up on everyone.
When something crept up on you, you didn't notice it coming until it arrived.
Prices creep up slowly; deadlines creep up faster than expected.
- approachedMoved toward something
- slinkMove furtively
- prowledMoved stealthily about
- stealthilyIn a covert manner
- closed inEncircled or approached
snuck up · gradual · sidle · encroached · sneaked · dawned · unnoticed · loomed · accumulated · escalated · mounted · tiptoed · slipped in · emerged · slithered · advanced · under the radar · crawled
movement direction
crept upretreated
Moved backward from advance
withdrew · backed away · pulled back · fell back · receded
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