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Words related to creep

Related / Similar Words: crawl, crawling, creeping, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook, sneak, mouse, steal, pussyfoot, grow over, fawn, cringe, cower, grovel

Definition:

a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep";

a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot;

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation;

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric;

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

to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor''s house";

grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example); "ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings";

show submission or fear;

See Also: slip away, steal away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out

Hyponyms: formicate

Derivational Morphology: crawl, sneak, mouse, steal, pussyfoot, crawling, creeping, crawler, creeper, earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, dew worm, red worm, stealth, stealing, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook, prowler, stalker, apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler, ass-kisser, coward, sycophant, toady, lackey

Anagrams: crepe

Language Translations:
Catalan: arrossegar-se		Danish: krybe
Dutch: kruipen		Esperanto: rampi
Finnish: ryömiä		French: ramper
German: kriechen		Italian: strisciare
Japanese: 這う		Portuguese: rastejar
Russian: ползти		Spanish: arrastrarse
Swedish: krypa

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