Definition of creep

"creep" in the noun sense

1. creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

2. creep

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

3. creep

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

4. crawl, crawling, creep, creeping

a slow 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"

"creep" in the verb sense

1. crawl, creep

move slowly in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

2. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot

to go stealthily or furtively

"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

3. creep

grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface

"ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"

4. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel

show submission or fear

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Quotations for creep

Love will creep where it cannot go. [ Proverb ]

To contemplation's sober eye.
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly.
Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day. [ Gray ]

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again. [ Robert Herrick ]

The harebells nod as she passes by,
The violet lifts its tender eye.
The ferns bend her steps to greet.
And the mosses creep to her dancing feet; [ Julia C. R. Dorr, Over The Wall ]

It would vex a dog to see a pudding creep. [ Proverb ]

'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. [ Byron ]

Sweet nurse of nature, over the senses creep. [ Churchill ]

Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks.
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of Tomorrow creep. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

He sneaks as if he would creep into his mouth. [ Proverb ]

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. [ William Cowper ]

Put another man's child into your bosom and he'll creep out at your sleeves. [ Proverb ]

Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Balm that tames all anguish, saint that evil thoughts and aims takest away, and into souls dost creep, like to a breeze from heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

creep in Scrabble®

The word creep is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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The word creep is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words containing the sequence creep

Words with creep in them (1 word)

Words that end with creep (1 word)

Word Growth involving creep

Shorter words in creep

re

Longer words containing creep

creepage creepages

creeped

creeper creepers

creepier

creepiest

creepily

creepiness

creeping

creeps

creepy