Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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"



Related searches:
creep feed
creep in
creep up
bracket creep
creeper
creeping
creepy


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Creep" Quotes from Famous Books



... to creep up gradually, but not to approach too near the hindmost coach of the train in front until ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... don't hurry. Speak gently. Know your ground. Cultivate a reputation for fairness rather than smoothness. Laxity and indifference in buying means that you are allowing wastes and leaks to creep in your business, and that you are placing a handicap on your traveling salesman, for goods well ...
— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter
... 'bake' has now a weak praeterite, 'baked', it had once a strong one, 'boke'; the praeterite of 'glide' is now 'glided', it was once 'glode' or 'glid'; 'help' makes now 'helped', it made once 'halp' and 'holp'. 'Creep' made 'crope', still current in the north of England; 'weep' 'wope'; 'yell' 'yoll' (both in Chaucer); 'seethe' 'soth' or 'sod' (Gen. xxv. 29); 'sheer' in like manner once made 'shore'; as 'leap' made 'lope'; 'wash' 'wishe' (Chaucer); ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... of the dining-room after the rest of the party, and the boys came close behind us. I heard one say in a low voice, "Did you ever see such hair?" and I felt a sort of creep run all the way down my plait and up again into my brain, because I've been brought up to think red hair ugly, and it's hard to believe every one isn't making fun of it. However, I remembered what Sir ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... sauntered between Ludgate Hill and Charing Cross a whole winter night, exposed not only to the inclemency of the weather, but likewise to the rage of hunger and thirst, without being so happy as to meet with one dupe, then creep up to my garret, in a deplorable draggled condition, sneak to bed, and try to bury my appetite and sorrows in sleep. When I lighted on some rake or tradesman reeling home drunk, I frequently suffered the most brutal treatment, in spite of which I was obliged ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com