Anagrams of: PROCEEDED

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• be the predecessor of

• move ahead (of others) in time or space

• furnish with a preface or introduction

• continue talking

• move ahead; travel onward in time or space

• follow a procedure or take a course

• follow a certain course

• continue a certain state, condition, or activity

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• be the predecessor of

• move ahead (of others) in time or space

• furnish with a preface or introduction

• To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

• Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

• To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

• To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

• To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

• To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

• To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

• To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

• To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

• To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

• fixed or established especially by order or command

• the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text

• a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant