Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to peep
Participle: peeped
Gerund: peeping
Indicative
Present
| I | peep |
| you | peep |
| he;she;it | peeps |
| we | peep |
| you | peep |
| they | peep |
Perfect
| I | have peeped |
| you | have peeped |
| he;she;it | has peeped |
| we | have peeped |
| you | have peeped |
| they | have peeped |
Past
| I | peeped |
| you | peeped |
| he;she;it | peeped |
| we | peeped |
| you | peeped |
| they | peeped |
Pluperfect
| I | had peeped |
| you | had peeped |
| he;she;it | had peeped |
| we | had peeped |
| you | had peeped |
| they | had peeped |
Future
| I | will peep |
| you | will peep |
| he;she;it | will peep |
| we | will peep |
| you | will peep |
| they | will peep |
Future Perfect
| I | will have peeped |
| you | will have peeped |
| he;she;it | will have peeped |
| we | will have peeped |
| you | will have peeped |
| they | will have peeped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | peep |
| you | peep |
| he;she;it | peep |
| we | peep |
| you | peep |
| they | peep |
Perfect
| I | have peeped |
| you | have peeped |
| he;she;it | have peeped |
| we | have peeped |
| you | have peeped |
| they | have peeped |
Imperfect
| I | peeped |
| you | peeped |
| he;she;it | peeped |
| we | peeped |
| you | peeped |
| they | peeped |
Pluperfect
| I | had peeped |
| you | had peeped |
| he;she;it | had peeped |
| we | had peeped |
| you | had peeped |
| they | had peeped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would peep |
| you | would peep |
| he;she;it | would peep |
| we | would peep |
| you | would peep |
| they | would peep |
Perfect
| I | would have peeped |
| you | would have peeped |
| he;she;it | would have peeped |
| we | would have peeped |
| you | would have peeped |
| they | would have peeped |
Imperative
| you | peep |
| we | Let's peep |
| you | peep |
Verbs conjugated like 'peep'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'peep'
beep,
eep,
jeep,
keep,
meep,
pee,
peek,
peel,
peen,
peepe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- cheep
- chirp, tweet, twitter, chatter, chirrup, chip, squeak, hoot
- peek
- glance, glimpse, look, snoop, peer
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic. See: Dutch '
piepen', German, old spelling '
piepen'.
Verbs referencing "peep"
Welsh
pipo, French
pépier, Cimbrian piipan.
Sample Sentences
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The indescribable interest with which I strained my eyes, as the first patches of American soil peeped like molehills from the green sea, and followed them, as they swelled, by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, into a continuous line of coast, can hardly be exaggerated. A sharp keen wind blew [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] frame, and but one outward sense—the sense of touch. There she was, before me; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light, or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an Immortal soul might be awakened.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] is rank, and rough, and wild: but delicate slopes of land, gently-swelling hills, wooded valleys, and slender streams, abound. Every little colony of houses has its church and school-house peeping from among the white roofs and shady trees; every house is the whitest of the white; every Venetian blind the greenest of the green; every fine day 's sky the bluest of the blue. A sharp dry wind [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Be sure that is a hospitable house with inmates to be affectionately remembered always, where they have the open door and pretty show of plants within, and where the child with laughing eyes is peeping out of window at the little dog below. You wonder what may be the use of this tall flagstaff in the by-street, with something like Liberty 's head-dress on its top: so do I. But there is a passion [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Each cell door on this side has a square aperture in it. Some of the women peep anxiously through it at the sound of footsteps; others shrink away in shame.—For what offence can that lonely child, of ten or twelve years old, be shut up here ? Oh! that boy? He is the son of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] corner which torments him. Every morning when he wakes, he hides his head beneath the coverlet, and shudders to see the ghastly ceiling looking down upon him. The blessed light of day itself peeps in, an ugly phantom face, through the unchangeable crevice which is his prison window.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] he did remember, he did not know exactly which to use. And while he was working, and breathing very hard, in his earnestness, Eva alighted, like a bird, on the round of his chair behind him, and peeped over his shoulder.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The child stood gravely regarding his mother in her new and strange attire, observing a profound silence, and occasionally drawing deep sighs, and peeping at her from under his dark curls.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)