'Creep' definitions:

Definition of 'creep'

From: WordNet
noun
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook]
noun
A slow longitudinal movement or deformation
noun
A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
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" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping]
verb
Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [syn: crawl, creep]
verb
To go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot]
verb
Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
verb
Show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel]

Definition of 'Creep'

From: GCIDE
  • Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. Crept (kr[e^]pt) (Crope (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. [1913 Webster]
  • The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. [1913 Webster]
  • To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. 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. "Creeping vines." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Creep'

From: GCIDE
  • Creep \Creep\, n.
  • 1. The act or process of creeping. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. [1913 Webster]
  • A creep of undefinable horror. --Blackwood's Mag. [1913 Webster]
  • Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Mining) 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. [1913 Webster]

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