Word Finder - crept

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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.

A cold chill crept up her spine, raising the hair on the back of her neck.

They cautiously crept forward.

Blackness crept into her vision.

He crept into the cave for the third time.

The dark mist slid to the floor and crept towards them.

She crept closer to him.

They cautiously crept around the dune.

Another of the newfound feelings crept into her.

She crept from the bed and looked around.

Brady crept as close as he dared.

Thoughts of you crept into my mind at every turn.

Dean crept down the hall and returned to his own bed, and, after a long time, finally slept.

The men had crept closer.

I remained still and expectant; a chilling terror crept over me.

Arnie waved the laser as Brady crept closer.

Belfair crept away from the castle of the lovely Queen Sinthee and her lazy mate Dorvad, past the kindly Fird of Kornor, mingling on the street with the commoners.

A few hours later, Sarah crept into his room to check on him.

Red crept up her features, and she looked away.

Ivy and Lara were already in bed, so I crept by quietly.

Anger crept through him.

He'd felt similar when the Black God's powers crept through him, stripping his demigod powers in preparation to give him something more.

She waited until she was certain he was distracted before she crept across the apartment, keeping as close to the wall farthest from him as possible.

The boy crept closer to her, and she sought some subject to discuss that would calm him.

Jule crept up to the place where the figure had taken refuge and heard the person shift.

The feeling she didn't like – guilt – crept into her.

We have crept into this corner of grief, turning the water wheel with a flow of tears.

She recognized Damian and Darian as they neared and crept closer to Jule at the sight of the strange man with red glowing eyes.

Dean took a deep breath and crept a few tentative steps into the darkness.

As she did every day, she wriggled out onto it and crept the length of the ledge to the neighboring window.

The muffled ring of his new phone woke him just as dawn's light crept through the window.

Red crept up Jenn's face, and her eyes glittered.

The dangerous edge crept into him.

During the Russian Dark Ages certain clerical errors had crept into the liturgical books Reforms a nd certain peculiarities had been adopted in the ritual.

About 89% recorded their preference in favour of English at the outset; then, as a result of violent political agitation, this percentage was considerably lowered, but soon crept up again.

The book of Johann Busch, himself a canon of Windesheim, De Reformatione monasteriorum, shows that in the 15th century grave relaxation had crept into many monasteries of Augustinian canons in north Germany, and the efforts at reform were only partially successful.

Boghurst, a contemporary doctor, notices that it crept down Holborn and took six months to travel from the western suburbs (St Giles) to the eastern (Stepney) through the city.

He regards " what is strangled " (7fvucr6v) as originally a mistaken gloss, which crept into the text.

Unfortunately corruption crept into the expenditure of the large sums necessary to carry out this programme.

The frequent roughnesses of the traditional text suggest, however,that here and there marginal glosses may have crept in.

His magic crept up her arm and into her body.

Short red hair crept from underneath her cap and even Dean's untrained eye could tell her makeup was carefully applied and her uniform cut to exhibit a knock-out figure.

Years of devouring that fiction genre helped formulate a world where intrigue crept around every corner for the dapper gentleman.

They advanced behind a creeping barrage - a curtain of falling shells which crept forward just ahead of them.

Slowly she crept across the floor trying to miss the creaky floorboards.

To this position the defeated rebels crept, intent on expunging their defeat in the blood of the wounded Highlanders.

He crept toward the bench, the pump-action shotgun leading the way.

The striker stabbed a first-time angled effort goalwards and the ball squirmed through the grasp of Myhre and crept over the line.

This is testified by George Joye in his Apology, who himself brought out a fourth edition of Tyndale's New Testament in August 1534, freed from many of the errors which, through the carelessness of the Flemish printers, had crept into the text, but with such alterations and new renderings as to arouse the indignation of Tyndale.

But, as the years have passed, a resigned, disdainful tone has crept into their responses.

Vile Bodies was just the right combination, tho " grimness and sardonic tone " crept in.