Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
What is the denotation of the word "stealing" in this
excerpt?
O being deceptive
O committing a crime
O keeping a secret
O taking over
And, to cap the climax of their base ingratitude and
fiendish barbarity, my grandmother, who was now very
old, having outlived my old master and all his children,
having seen the beginning and end of all of them, and
her present owners finding she was of but little value,
her frame already racked with the pains of old age, and
complete helplessness fast stealing over her once
active limbs, they took her to the woods, built her a little
hut, put up a little mud-chimney, and then made her
welcome to the privilege of supporting herself there is
perfect loneliness: thus virtually turning her out to die!