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Definition of 'CREEP'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) creep
to move slowly with the body close to the ground, on hands and knees, or the like.

2.  creep
to approach slowly and stealthily (often fol. by up).

3.  creep
to advance slowly and often with difficulty:
The car crept up the hill.

4.  creep
to sneak up behind someone (usu. fol. by up on):
The prisoner crept up on the guard and knocked him out.

5.  creep
to become evident gradually (often fol. by in or into):
The writer's bias creeps into the story.

6.  creep
to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant.

7.  creep
to slip, slide, or shift gradually.

8.  creep
(of a metal object) to become deformed, as under continuous loads or at high temperatures.

9. (v.t.) creep
Archaic. to creep along or over.

10. (n.) creep
an act or instance of creeping.

11.  creep
Slang. an eccentric or obnoxious person.

12.  creep
the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction.

13.  creep
the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.

14.  creep
Mech. the gradual, permanent deformation of a body produced by a continued application of heat or stress.

15.  creep
the creeps, a sensation of fear, disgust, or the like, as of something crawling over the skin:
That movie gave me the creeps.

Definition of 'CREEP'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

2. (noun) creep
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

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

4. (verb) crawl, crawling, creep, creeping
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"

5. (verb) crawl, creep
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

6. (verb) sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot
to go stealthily or furtively
"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

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

8. (verb) fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
show submission or fear

Definition of 'CREEP'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) creep
to move very quietly
He crept into the house late at night.

2. creep
to move slowly; = crawl
The caterpillar crept along the branch.

Definition of 'CREEP'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) CREEP
the act or process of creeping

2. (noun) CREEP
a distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects

3. (noun) CREEP
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

4. (verb) CREEP
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

5. (verb) CREEP
to move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness

6. (verb) CREEP
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

7. (verb) CREEP
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

8. (verb) CREEP
to move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant

9. (verb) CREEP
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

10. (verb) CREEP
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

11. (verb) CREEP
to drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable

Definitions of 'CREEP'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. CREEP
To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.

Translation of 'CREEP'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to move slowly, quietly or secretly He crept into the bedroom.
Afrikaans: sluip	Arabic: يَزحفُ داخلا إلى	Bulgarian: лазя
Brazilian: esgueirar-se	Czech: (v)plížit se	German: schleichen
Danish: krybe; snige; liste	Greek: γλιστρώ αθόρυβα	Spanish: deslizarse, moverse despa
Estonian: hiilima, pugema	Farsi: آرام و دزدانه رفتن	Finnish: hiipiä
French: se glisser (sans bruit)	Hebrew: לְהִתגָנֵב	Hindi: चुपके चुपके चलना
Croatian: puzati	Hungarian: (be)lopódzik	Indonesian: menyelinap
Icelandic: læðast	Italian: muoversi furtivamente*	Japanese: そっと近づく
Korean: 기어가다	Lithuanian: sėlinti, slinkti	Latvian: lēni kustēties; vilkties
Malay: bergerak dengan perlahan	Dutch: sluipen	Norwegian: krype, liste/snike (seg)
Polish: skradać się	Persian: آرام و دزدانه رفتن	Pashto: په ارامه او غلا غلا تلل
Romanian: a se furişa	Russian: красться	Slovak: vkradnúť sa
Slovenian: prihuliti se	Serbian: šunjati se	Swedish: smyga
Thai: ย่อง	Turkish: sessizce sokulmak	Taiwanese: 躡手躡腳地走
Ukrainian: крастися, підкрадатися	Urdu: آهست‍ہ آهست‍ہ چلنا، رینگن	Vietnamese: rón rén
Chinese: 蹑手蹑脚的走
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