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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"



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"Creep" Quotes from Famous Books



... westward by some strange freak of nature, and a land far north of us, now ice and snow, turned into greenland; while our whole land is enshrouded in death dealing cold and ice and snow and preceding this, the waters creep up and engulf our city. The mountain on which the great ship rests sinks down to meet the rising waters and the ship sails off to the southeast, leaving us helpless victims to be engulfed by the rising waters or frozen by the creeping, numbing cold, or smothered under mountains ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me" (Psa 51:2,3). But his knowledge is not at first in young converts; therefore when God begins to awaken, they begin, as sleepy men, to creep further under their carnal covering; which yet is too short to hide them, and too narrow to cover their ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... a prayer, isn't it?" said Anne, her face upturned to the shining sky. "How I love the pines! They seem to strike their roots deep into the romance of all the ages. It is so comforting to creep away now and then for a good talk with them. I always feel so happy ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... act came to an end without another breakdown, but Charmian felt more doubtful about the opera than she had felt after the first act. The deadness of rehearsal began to creep upon her, almost like moss creeping over a building. Claude hurried away again. And Mrs. Haynes, the dressmaker, took his place and began telling Charmian a long story about Enid Mardon's impossible proceedings. It seemed that she had picked, or torn, to pieces another dress. Charmian listened, ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... two classes of genuine disciples,—between those who simply trust in the Lord and serve him in love, and those who, although also in the main believers, allow the leaven of self-righteousness to creep in and mar the ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot


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