[
US
/ˈkɹip/
]
[ UK /kɹˈiːp/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈiːp/ ]
VERB
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to go stealthily or furtively
..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house -
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed - show submission or fear
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grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings
NOUN
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
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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
How To Use creep In A Sentence
- There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
- Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
- Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
- The makeup for the Djinn character is creepy and evil, like some devilish creature from an R-rated version of Star Wars.
- Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house. READY?
- After his long stretch as an untouchable hero and saint (courtesy of hagiographer R Bolt) it was about time that creep More was taken off his pedestal. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Observe live bugs and even hold the creepy-crawlies in your hands. Times, Sunday Times
- And if some heartless creep makes rude remarks that hurt your friend, you are not responsible for his actions.
- It came in a steady flood from Fang to me and, through me, to all the creepy-crawly things I could hurl at the ground and at the concrete, at the brick, and at the stone. Crossed
- First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)