noun
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
- synonyms: creep
- A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
- synonyms: creep
- A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body.
- usage: "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
- A disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait.
- A feeling of fear and revulsion.
- usage: "he gives me the creeps"
verb
- Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground.
- usage: "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
- To go stealthily or furtively.
- usage: ".. Stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface. )
- usage: "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
- synonyms: creep
- Show submission or fear.
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