creep up
— phrasal verb with creep uk/kriːp/us/kriːp/verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] crept, crept
If the value or amount of something creeps up, it slowly increases:
Over the last year, the rate of inflation has crept up to almost seven percent.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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