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CREEP
crawl, crawling, creep, creeping
(noun) a slow 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”
creep
(noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
creep
(noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook
(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
crawl, creep
(verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; “The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed”
sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot
(verb) to go stealthily or furtively; “..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor’s house”
creep
(verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); “ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings”
fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
(verb) show submission or fear
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
CREEP
(historical, derogatory) Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
Synonyms
• CRP (not derogatory)
Anagrams
• Perce, PercĂ©, crepe, crĂŞpe, perce
Etymology 1
Verb
creep (third-person singular simple present creeps, present participle creeping, simple past creeped or (obsolete) crope or crept, past participle creeped or (archaic) cropen or crept)
(intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
Synonym: crawl
(intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
(intransitive) 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.
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex with (a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
Etymology 2
From the above verb.
Noun
creep (countable and uncountable, plural creeps)
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
(uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
(publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
(materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
(informal, pejorative) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
(informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
(agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
Anagrams
• Perce, PercĂ©, crepe, crĂŞpe, perce
Source: Wiktionary
Creep (krp), v. t. [imp. Crept (krpt) (Crope (kr, Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] Etym: [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre; 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 guilty thing, Icreep. 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 sothistry 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)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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