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Definition & Synonyms
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• Creep
- (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.
- (n.) The act or process of creeping.
- (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- (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. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
- (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.
- (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
- (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or ones self; as, age creeps upon us.
- (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms:
Cower, Crawl, Crawling, Creeping, Cringe, Fawn, Grovel, Mouse, Sneak, Spook, Steal,
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• Creepingly
- (adv.) by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.
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Cann, Peek, Radial, Cited, Pirnes, Trembling, Coping-Saw, Perci, Interm, Stud, Squirrel, Betraying, Jump Ship, Pointless, Really, Radial, Word, Liquid, Interm, Nervous, Linkers, Prosecute, Perceptiveness, Petit Mal, Trembling, Cann, Baccalaureate, Strike, Problem, Petered, Cited, Pervasiveness, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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