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past tense of inch
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1
to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits
- every year the water inches further up the embankments, threatening to permanently engulf the island city
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- entrenched
- (also intrenched),
- impinged,
- infringed,
- intruded,
- invaded
2
to move slowly
- the car inched carefully across the snow-covered causeway
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“Inched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inched. Accessed 6 Jul. 2022.
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The first known use of inched was in 1605
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