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creep

/kɹiːp/noun, verb1 syllable

Creep means: show submission or fear.

Synonyms for creep21

noun, as in someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook

noun, as in a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

verb, as in show submission or fear

fawn, crawl, cringe, cower, grovel

verb, as in to go stealthily or furtively

sneak, mouse, pussyfoot

verb, as in move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

also used for creep

steal in, cold flow, creepazoid, creeper, creepoid, pervert, perv

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What does creep mean?8

verb

1

show submission or fear

2

to go stealthily or furtively“… stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house”

3

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground“The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed”

4

grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)“ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings”

noun

1

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

2

a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body“a crawl was all that the injured man could manage”

3

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

4

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

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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