verb Download 🔗Share To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. Examples : "The baby turtle crept across the lawn, its belly dragging close to the ground. " animal action biology nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. Examples : "The ivy tends to creep across the brick wall instead of growing straight up. " plant biology nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. Examples : "The cat crept silently across the floor towards the food bowl. " action direction way Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction. Examples : "The temperature gradually creeped up throughout the day. " direction process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself. Examples : "The thief crept silently through the school hallway, trying not to be heard. " action way Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To slip, or to become slightly displaced. Examples : "The loose floorboards in the attic creaked and groaned as I crept through the room. " action physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn. Examples : "The new student crept around the class, trying to win the teacher's favor by constantly agreeing with everything she said. " attitude character action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl. Examples : "The cold, damp floor made goosebumps rise and made her skin creep. " sensation body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. Examples : "The salvage team will creep the seabed with specialized equipment to locate and recover the lost section of the transatlantic cable. " nautical technology machine ocean sailing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with. Examples : "He crept on his coworker during their lunch break, hiding his affair from his wife. " sex moral action human society Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails) Examples : "The slow creep of the ants across the kitchen counter was a nuisance. " animal action way organism Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure. Examples : "The engineer carefully monitored the bridge for any signs of creep in the concrete supports after the heavy truck traffic. " technical science physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something Examples : "The tiny creep of the floorboards signaled someone was walking upstairs. " physics science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively. Examples : "christmas creep" negative tendency situation process business society Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it. Examples : "The book's pages had a noticeable creep, causing the inside pages to stick out more than the outer ones. " technical writing structure literature part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress. Examples : "The slow creep of the foundation caused the house to lean slightly over time. " material physics technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock. Examples : "The slow creep of the hillside soil made the foundation of the old house unstable. " geology environment nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. Examples : ""Everyone avoids talking to Michael; they say he's a real creep." " character person human Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills. Examples : "Stop following me, you creep!" person character human Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through. Examples : "The farmer used a wire creep to keep the rabbits out of the vegetable garden, but let the chickens through. " property architecture animal agriculture environment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
