creep
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5.3
- noun
- /kriːp/
:
gateo
- With a careful creep, the cat approached the sleeping dog to sniff its ears.
Examples
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After a long journey, the soldier's slow creep through the tall grass was necessary to avoid detection.
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The boys were beginning to feel the cold creep in.
Fiction book (1999) -
This whole place kind of gives me the creeps.
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This place gives me the creeps.
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The thought of them touching me gives me the creeps.
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This dump gives me the creeps.
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It gives me the creeps.
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The child's creep across the floor was so quiet that no one noticed him hiding.
Synonyms
23
1.2
A slow movement made by moving on hands and knees or by dragging the body
1
8.6
Walking with slow, dragging steps without lifting the feet properly
A way of moving slowly on your hands and knees or by dragging your body along the ground
A slow movement on hands and knees or along the ground
To walk slowly while dragging the feet so they barely lift
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
1
8.5
When inflation raises pay, people move into higher tax bands and pay more tax without getting richer
- Specialized
Special food given to young animals like piglets or calves that adults cannot reach
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Creep as a noun for a slow movement comes from old English crēopan 'to move close to the ground', so a 'creep' names a very slow, low movement like a car or snail barely moving forward.