creep

creep is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
9. noun. The act or process of creeping.
10. noun. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. a slow 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"

    Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping

13. noun. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
14. noun. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
15. noun. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

    Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy

16. verb. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

    "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

    Synonyms: crawl

17. verb. to go stealthily or furtively

    "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

    Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak

18. verb. grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

    "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"

19. verb. show submission or fear

    Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel

Synonyms

crawl, crawling, creeping, spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy, mouse, pussyfoot, sneak, cower, cringe, fawn, grovel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in creep:

crepe

Common word forms

creeps, creeped, creeper, creeping

Words from these letters

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