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creep

English

  1. 🔊 a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
  2. 🔊 a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
  3. 🔊 someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
  4. 🔊 a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
    “a crawl was all that the injured man could manage”
  5. 🔊 grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
    “ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings”
  6. 🔊 move slowly
    “The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed”
  7. 🔊 to go stealthily or furtively
    “..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house”
  8. 🔊 show submission or fear

Spanish

  1. 🔊 arrastramiento creep
  2. 🔊 fatiga creep
  3. 🔊 desgraciado creep, unfortunate person
  4. 🔊 espeluznar to creep, to frighten, to horrify
  5. 🔊 trepar to creep, to climb (e.g. a plant or tree)

Similar words

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