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[ verb ] move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
Synonyms Examples "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" Used in print (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)They crept down the muddy slope toward the waiting boats . He had reached the three passive guards ; he crept in an incertain manner , patting the ground before him . Watson watched the creeping figure . The man began to creep in the wrong direction , deceived by a slight rise in the ground ! |
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[ verb ] to go stealthily or furtively
Examples : "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Painters left less and less of a vase in a plain dark color ; instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other , and hung as sadly in the drizzle , creeping back_down along the sopping canvas of the roof . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)They waited three minutes and_then crept out on tip-toe ; the halls were empty and they passed down_the_stairs to number nine and listened at the door . |
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[ verb ] grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example)
Synonyms Examples "ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings" Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene - whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door . |
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[ noun ] a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
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[ noun ] a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
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[ noun ] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body)
Examples "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage" "the traffic moved at a creep" Related terms |
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