CREEP
\kɹˈiːp], \kɹˈiːp], \k_ɹ_ˈiː_p]\
Definitions of CREEP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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show submission or fear
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move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
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a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
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to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
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grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example); "ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings"
By Princeton University
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show submission or fear
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move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
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a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
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to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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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.
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To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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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.
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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.
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To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
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The act or process of creeping.
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A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To move slowly along the ground, as a worm or reptile; crawl; grow along the ground, as a plant; move secretly or stealthily.
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The act of crawling; the sensation of being covered with crawling things; often colloquially in plural.
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Crept.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To move on the belly, like a snake: to move slowly: to grow along the ground or on supports, as a vine: to fawn:-pr.p. creeping: pa.t. and pa.p. crept.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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