See crepen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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"form": "crepen",
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"form": "-",
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"imperative",
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]
},
{
"form": "crepynge",
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{
"form": "crepende",
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]
},
{
"form": "cropen",
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{
"form": "crope",
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"form": "crept",
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"form": "crepe",
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]
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{
"form": "crope",
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},
{
"form": "creepe",
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]
},
{
"form": "cryepe",
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},
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"form": "creope",
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]
},
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"form": "creopen",
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116,
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],
"english": "\"If we'd killed the cat, there should nevertheless be another [one] / to snatch us and all of our kind / even if we crept underneath [the] benches.\"",
"ref": "c. 1390, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in Peres plouhman (X, C-text), southwest Worcestershire, published c. 1395, folio 3, verso; republished as MS. HM 143, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:",
"text": "Thow we hadde ykuld þe Cat / ȝut shulde ther come another / To crache vs and alle oure kynde / thogh we crope vnder benches",
"translation": "\"If we'd killed the cat, there should nevertheless be another [one] / to snatch us and all of our kind / even if we crept underneath [the] benches.\"",
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"To enter or leave (a condition)"
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"To burgle or rob; to steal from a residence."
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"residence",
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"advance",
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"progress",
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"make",
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"(especially pathology) To advance or progress; to make progress:"
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"especially"
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"To advance or progress; to make progress:",
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"advance",
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"progress",
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"make",
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"progress",
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[
"spread",
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"climb",
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"(especially pathology) To advance or progress; to make progress:",
"(rare) Of plants; to spread or climb."
],
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"especially",
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"medicine",
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"To feel crawling in one's body."
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[
"body",
"body"
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"(rare) To feel crawling in one's body."
],
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"rare"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkreːpən/"
}
],
"word": "crepen"
}
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