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Creep

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Noun

1. creep, spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

2. creep

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

3. creep

a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

4. crawl, crawling, creep, creeping

a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

Example Sentences:
'a crawl was all that the injured man could manage'
'the traffic moved at a creep'

Verb

5. crawl, creep

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

Example Sentences:
'The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed'

6. creep, mouse, pussyfoot, sneak

to go stealthily or furtively

Example Sentences:
'..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house'

7. creep

grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

Example Sentences:
'ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings'

8. cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel

show submission or fear

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Creep

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verbWord forms: creeps, creeping or crept (intransitive)
1. 
to crawl with the body near to or touching the ground
2. 
to move slowly, quietly, or cautiously
3. 
to act in a servile way; fawn; cringe
4. 
to move or slip out of place, as from pressure or wear
5. 
(of plants) to grow along the ground or over rocks, producing roots, suckers, or tendrils at intervals
6. 
(of a body or substance) to become permanently deformed as a result of an applied stress, often when combined with heating
7. 
to develop gradually
creeping unrest
8. 
to have the sensation of something crawling over the skin
9. 
(of metals) to undergo slow plastic deformation
noun
10. 
the act of creeping or a creeping movement
11. slang
a person considered to be obnoxious or servile
12. 
the continuous permanent deformation of a body or substance as a result of stress or heat
13. geology
the gradual downwards movement of loose rock material, soil, etc, on a slope
14. 
a slow relative movement of two adjacent parts, structural components, etc
15. 
slow plastic deformation of metals

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Creep

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verb intransitiveWord forms: crept or ˈcreeping
1. 
to move along with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees
2. 
to move slowly, stealthily, timidly, or furtively
3. 
to come on gradually and almost unnoticed
often with up
4. 
to cringe; fawn
5. 
to grow along the ground or a wall, as some plants
6. 
to slip slightly out of position
7.  US
to change in shape as the result of constant stress, temperature, etc.
said of materials, metals, etc.
noun
8. 
the act of creeping
9. 
a creeping movement
10. 
the gradual deformation of a material, esp. a metal or alloy, due to constant stress, high temperature, etc.
11.  US, Slang
a person regarded as very annoying, disgusting, etc.
12.  Geology
the slow, almost imperceptible movement of soil and loose rock down a slope

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Creep

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intr.v. crept(krĕpt), creep·ing, creeps
1. To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
2.
a. To move stealthily or cautiously.
b. To move or proceed very slowly: Traffic creeps at that hour.
3. Botany
a. To grow or spread along a surface, rooting at intervals or clinging by means of suckers or tendrils.
b. To grow horizontally under the ground, as the rhizomes of many plants.
4. To slip out of place; shift gradually.
5. To have a tingling sensation, made by or as if by things moving stealthily: a moan that made my flesh creep.
n.
1. The act of creeping; a creeping motion or progress.
2. Slang An annoyingly unpleasant, unsettling, or repulsive person.
3. A slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure.
4. A slow change in a characteristic of electronic equipment, such as a decrease in power with continued usage.
5. A usually unplanned and gradual shift or increase in uses or objectives away from what was originally specified or limited. Often used in combination: the function creep of using social security numbers for general identification purposes; mission creep from a military peacekeeping role to one of providing economic development.
6. Geology The slow movement of rock debris and soil down a weathered slope.
7. creeps Informal A sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin: That house gives me the creeps.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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