creep
/kɹiːp/noun, verb1 syllable
Creep means: show submission or fear.
Synonyms for creep21
noun, as in someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
noun, as in a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
verb, as in move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
What does creep mean?8
verb
show submission or fear
to go stealthily or furtively“… stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house”
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground“The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed”
grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)“ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings”
noun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body“a crawl was all that the injured man could manage”
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with creep?16
Creep in a sentence
- Because of my carelessness, a lot of mistakes creep into my sentences.karloelkebekio
- Why are you sneaking up on me, creep?Amastan
- The cat took advantage of the high grass to creep on the bird.shekitten
- Sometimes it's fun to creep yourself out thinking about it.fenfang557
- Isabella wasn't in the least interested in that creep.Amastan
- Tell that creep to stop ticking us off with his worthless statistics.weirdie
- Elias was looking for anything that could creep him out to entertain him.Amastan
- Alberto was staring through the window like a creep.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of creep
as a noun
- plural
- creeps
as a verb
- past tense
- crept
- past participle
- crept
- present participle
- creeping
- third-person singular
- creeps