Word Finder - creep

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To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

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• crawl

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Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

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To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

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To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

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To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

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To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

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To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

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To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

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To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

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To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

I'll be as quiet as a kitten in slippers as I creep up to the bedroom.

Instead, he watched red creep up Dan's face.

I wonder if the man she's talking to is her creep of a husband.

They gazed at each other until she felt red creep up her neck.

Autumn had begun to creep over New England, promising to transform the landscape into the backdrop that Jackson Parrish so loved.

The Christians made efforts to creep back to their former possessions and churches were rebuilt in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth; but another devastation was the result of the ferocious inroads of the Mongolian Timur (Tamerlane) in 1400.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Then I saw a figure get out of the car and creep around toward the back of the house.

He was able to creep up, snatch a purse and run before anyone registered that the hooded youth ever approached.

Mistakes creep in when time is short and writing is rushed.

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They don't creep, but fit the legs for a flattering fit.

They like to creep up on me when they think I'm unarmed.

Little bodies in particular love to creep closer to the birthday child as presents are being opened.

What is the best was to avoid carb creep?

I have total faith that you'll beat the socks off the creep.

If the skirt or pants bind or creep, you won't be comfortable.

Also naturally present in wine, histamines cause the symptoms that creep up during allergy season – think flushing, sneezing, runny nose, and watery eyes.

Every business develops time wasting methods that creep into daily productivity.

Waiting until nightfall, he changed into clothing more suited for the Qatwali society and covered his face with a hood to creep into the city.

Anyone who only takes in 800 calories a day is bound to lose weight, but when you begin eating normal meals again, chances are the weight will creep back on.

It was patented in 1919, just four years after the initial idea and began to creep into use during the 1920s.

What could Brenda have told this creep?

These forms are termed the stock-mothers; they creep into the buds of the vine, and, as these develop intofthe young leaves, insert their proboscis into the upper side.

A coal seam with a soft pavement and a hard roof is the most subject to a " creep."

The only movement in the depths is the slow creep of ice-cold water northwards along the bottom from the Southern Ocean; but this is more marked, and apparently penetrates farther north, than in the Atlantic.

As the ranks of the clergy slowly filled, questions arose which the Reformation had not settled, and it was natural that the old system with which the country was familiar should creep in again.

Further, he set his face against the Tantra system, and against the animistic superstitions which had been allowed to creep into life again.

With a look around, she started down a new direction, hoping it emptied out somewhere that didn't creep her out so much.

There was the yellow move­ment of a flashlight much too close and Dean sat bolt upright, a frantic vision of Bob from Boise, or Hal the creep, or someone ready to avenge the chastity of a wife or sister.

No more, he swore, would he stealthily creep, Sheep in hand, in the dark, o'er the college wall!

At night I'd hear your gentle paws Quietly creep out of the back room into ours.

When I cried he gave me a dog daisy, told me not to tell my mom and to creep round the back way.

These stresses are a consequence of the loadings but as service proceeds and creep deformation occurs the stresses will change with time.

The value of the stress exponent indicates which mechanism of creep is acting.

Movement along the San Andreas can occur either in sudden jolts or in a slow, steady motion called creep.

Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy tragic muse gives smiles, thy comic sleep.

I felt a pang of fear creep in deep down to the pit of my stomach.

They creep up behind them real slow, knock into their tails and then scarper as quickly as possible.

A comfy old slipper of a pub- a Dickensian haunt, with low doors in wooden panels for you to creep through.

Creep of wood makes it important that longbows or violins are not left tightly strung.

A curtain of cloud relents enough to allow the peaks of the Olympic Peninsula, dusted with snow, to creep into the picture.

How soon do slanderous reports, vain jests, wanton speeches, creep into the heart !

The result of creep is a change in volume (also water content and void ratio).

This will tell you just how high the dress will "creep up" when it's time to boogey down.

Its graceful pale green fronds are 1 to 2 feet long and 5 to 9 inches broad, twice or thrice divided, and carried upon roots which creep just under the ground.

It grows in almost any soil, and, like its relation the Bindweed, is readily increased by division of the roots, which creep.

Experience proves, however, that it revels in cool rich loam and leaf soil, and flowers profusely when with these are associated broken sandstone, over which the rhizomes creep and flower.

It delights in an exposed position on the rock garden, with an open space on which to creep.

Because of the variety of curvy body types, it is hard to find styles that do not creep up around the thigh area, hug your derrière too tightly or fit uncomfortably around the waist.