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Creep   /krip/   Listen
Creep

verb
(past crept, obs. crope; past part. crept; pres. part. creeping)
1.
Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground.  Synonym: crawl.
2.
To go stealthily or furtively.  Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak.
3.
Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface).
4.
Show submission or fear.  Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel.
noun
1.
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.  Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy.
2.
A slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
3.
A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
4.
A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body.  Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping.  "The traffic moved at a creep"



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"Creep" Quotes from Famous Books



... fight, for I too am a Kshatriya." The progress of Ravana through the air appals all Nature. The winds breathe low in timid murmurs through the rustling woods; the sun with slackened fires gleams pale abroad and the streams, relaxing from their rapid course, slowly creep along. Ravana defies Rama with great disdain and in derision of his modest demeanour, asks him whether he is not overcome with shame by the recollection of his ancestor, Anaranya, killed formerly ...
— Tales from the Hindu Dramatists • R. N. Dutta
... I saw Maloney deliberately creep closer to the fire and heap the wood on. We gathered in to the heat, and to each other, and listened to Dr. Silence's voice as it mingled with the swish and whirr of the wind about us, and the falling of ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... haunting thing than to her husband, had suddenly broken a silence, saying "Where is Oak?" There was no answer, but the look of the man of whom she had asked the question was such that she was glad to creep from his sight unharmed. Yet once again, months later, she forgot herself and mocked Ab when he had been boastful over some exploit of strength and courage and when he had seemed to say that he knew no fear. She, ...
— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo
... mate and I. How frightened I was! for our nest was in those green weeds and not very far from the ground. I flew away as soon as I could pluck up courage, but not far, so that I could watch the lady and the nest. How my heart jumped when I saw her creep up, part the weeds and look in. All she saw was a few twigs and a sage-green nest of old grass laid in a coil. My mate hadn't put in the lining yet; you see it takes her quite a while to get the ...
— Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. II., No. 5, November 1897 - A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life • Various
... themselves to the utmost. The iron was tougher than they had expected, but they were striving for liberty and, with desperate exertions, they bent it inwards until, at last, there was room enough for them to creep through. ...
— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty


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