CREEP IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creep in mean? 

• CREEP IN (verb)
  The verb CREEP IN has 1 sense:

1. enter surreptitiously

  Familiarity information: CREEP IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREEP IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter surreptitiously

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

creep in; sneak in

Context example:

In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in

Hypernyms (to "creep in" is one way to...):

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The hunting was perilous; yet the boats, lowered day after day, were swallowed up in the grey obscurity, and were seen no more till nightfall, and often not till long after, when they would creep in like sea-wraiths, one by one, out of the grey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If ever she should come a wandering back, I wouldn't have the old place seem to cast her off, you understand, but seem to tempt her to draw nigher to 't, and to peep in, maybe, like a ghost, out of the wind and rain, through the old winder, at the old seat by the fire. Then, maybe, Mas'r Davy, seein' none but Missis Gummidge there, she might take heart to creep in, trembling; and might come to be laid down in her old bed, and rest her weary head where it was once so gay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)