Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive 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. i., 4.
- 8intransitive verb
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- 9noun
The act or process of creeping.
- 10noun
A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
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"
- 13noun
a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- 14noun
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- 15noun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- 16verb
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
Synonyms
- 17verb
to go stealthily or furtively
"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- 18verb
grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
"ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
- 19verb
show submission or fear
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