Meaning of 'creep' (Webster Dictionary)
- The act or process of creeping.
- A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by
the creeping of insects.
- 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.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a
submarine cable.
- 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.
- To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from
unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- 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.
- 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.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;
to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
- 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.
- 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.
Meaning of 'creep' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Example in sentence:- a crawl was all that the injured man could manage;
- the traffic moved at a creep
Meaning (2):
- to go stealthily or furtively
Example in sentence:- ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house
Meaning (3):
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
Example in sentence:- ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings
Meaning (4):
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
Example in sentence:- The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
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