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Creep Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Creep?
[n] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
[n] a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot [n] a slow longitudinal movement or deformation [n] someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [v] move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [v] to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [v] grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example); of plants such as ivy [v] show submission or fear Synonyms | Synonyms for Creep: cower | crawl | crawl | crawling | creeping | cringe | fawn | grovel | grow over | mouse | pussyfoot | schmuck | sneak | spook | steal | weirdie | weirdo | weirdy Related Terms | Find terms related to Creep: all fours | amble | andante | bastard | bend the knee | bootlick | bow | bow and scrape | bugger | claudicate | claudication | couch | cower | crawl | crawling | creeping | cringe | crouch | dead march | dogtrot | drag | drag along | drag on | drag out | fart | fawn | feel creepy | feel funny | flatter | footpace | funeral march | go dead slow | go on | go on tiptoe | go slow | grovel | gumshoe | gumshoeing | have gooseflesh | have the creeps | heel | hobble | hood | hooligan | idle | inch | inch along | jerk | jog | jog trot | jog-trot | kneel | kowtow | lay wait | laze | leisurely gait | lick the dust | lickspittle | lie in wait | limp | linger | linger on | louse | lumbering pace | lurk | meanie | mincing steps | mosey | mother | nightwalk | nightwalking | pad | padding | pill | plod | poke | poke along | prowl | prowling | pussyfoot | pussyfooting | rack | rat | saunter | scrabble | scramble | shadow | shamble | shit | shithead | shitheel | shuffle | shuffle along | sidle | sidling | skulk | slink | slinking | slither | slouch | slow march | slow motion | snake | snaking | sneak | sneaking | SOB | squirm | stagger along | stalk | steal | steal along | stealing | stinkard | stinker | stoop | stroll | tarry | tippytoe | tiptoe | tiptoeing | toadeat | toady | toddle | toddle along | totter along | traipse | truckle | trudge | turd | waddle | walk | wear on | wiggle | worm | worm along | worming | wriggle See Also | bend | change of location | diffuse | disagreeable person | fan out | flex | formicate | go | locomote | locomotion | move | pen | ramp | slip away | sneak away | sneak off | sneak out | spread | spread out | steal away | travel | travel | travel | unpleasant person | walk Creep In Webster's Dictionary \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[e^]pt) ({Crope}
(kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.]
[OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G.
kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. {Cripple},
{Crouch}.]
1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the
belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the
hands and knees; to crawl.
Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly
creep. --Milton.
2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from
unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
Unwillingly to school. --Shak.
Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson.
3. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move
imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate
itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of
argument. --Locke.
Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii.
6.
4. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the
collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep
in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;
to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak.
6. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some
other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by
tendrils, along its length. ``Creeping vines.'' --Dryden.
7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of
the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See
{Crawl}, v. i., 4.
8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a
submarine cable.
\Creep\, n. 1. The act or process of creeping. 2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. A creep of undefinable horror. --Blackwood's Mag. Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. --Lowell. 3. (Mining) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground. |
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