Creep

[kriːp] or [krip]

Definition

(noun.) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.

(noun.) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation.

(noun.) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

(verb.) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); 'ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings'.

Edited by Edward--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

(n.) The act or process of creeping.

(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

(n.) 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.

Inputed by Kirsten

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Crawl.[2]. Steal, glide stealthily, come unnoticed.[3]. Fawn, cringe, play the sycophant.

Checked by Jennie

Definition

v.i. to move on the belly like a snake: to move slowly: to grow along the ground or on supports as a vine: to fawn or cringe: to have the physical sensation of something creeping over or under the skin: to shudder at from fear or repugnance: to drag with a creeper as a river-bottom:—pr.p. creep′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. crept.—ns. Creep′er a creeping plant: a genus of small climbing birds; Creep′-hole a hole into which to creep: a subterfuge; Creep′ie a low stool the old Scotch stool of repentance.—adv. Creep′ingly.—adj. Creep′y.

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