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Meaning and definition for "creep" word

[noun] a slow creeping 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"
[noun] a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
[noun] a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
[noun] someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
[verb] move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
[verb] to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
[verb] grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example); of plants such as ivy
[verb] show submission or fear
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\Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[e^]pt) ({Crope} (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. {Cripple}, {Crouch}.] 1. 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. Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. 2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. --Shak. Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson. 3. 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. The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. --Locke. Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii. 6. 4. 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. 5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak. 6. 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. ``Creeping vines.'' --Dryden. 7. 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. 8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
\Creep\, n. 1. The act or process of creeping. 2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. A creep of undefinable horror. --Blackwood's Mag. Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. --Lowell. 3. (Mining) 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 for creep

cower, crawl, crawl, crawling, creeping, cringe, fawn, grovel, grow over, mouse, pussyfoot, schmuck, sneak, spook, steal, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy

See also: bend | change of location | diffuse | disagreeable person | fan out | flex | formicate | go | locomote | locomotion | move | pen | ramp | slip away | sneak away | sneak off | sneak out | spread | spread out | steal away | travel | travel | travel | unpleasant person | walk |

Related terms: bow, fart, feel creepy, go on, go slow, have the creeps, heel, inch along, jerk, lay wait, louse, lumbering pace, pill, shadow, shamble, shuffle along, slink, slinking, slow motion, snake, stinkard, totter along

The fun area, different aproach to word »creep«

Let's analyse "creep" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: PEERC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1340 milliseconds. [info]

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Morse code: -.-. .-. . . .--.

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: creep: 5 + 5 = 10, reduced: 1 . and the final result is One.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: creep: 3 + 9 + 5 + 5 + 7 = 29, reduced: 11, and the final result is Eleven.

Tarot cards

Letter Num. Tarot c. Intensity Meaning
C (1) 3 Empress Patient, Willful, Strong, Giving
E (2) 5 Hierophant Wise, Crafty, Daring, Inventive
P (1) 16 Tower Craftsman, Laborer, Builder
R (1) 18 Moon Patient, Determined, Strong

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