Word Finder - creeps

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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.

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The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)

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A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

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A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something

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The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

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christmas creep

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In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.

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An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

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The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

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Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

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• weirdo

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A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.

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Stop following me, you creep!

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A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

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(preceded by definite article) A sensation that things are crawling on one's skin.

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(preceded by definite article) A feeling of fear or horror.

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I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight.

This place gives me the creeps.

Some ferns have a longer or shorter erect stem often clothed by the persistent bases of the leaves; in others the stem creeps on the surface of the substratum or is subterranean.

Thanks. Those things give me the creeps.

Her soulful gaze and gentle words gave him the creeps.

He gets so miserable, that he creeps away.

Once you start to know your enemy, understanding creeps in.

This place always gave her the creeps.

In Tubularia, on the other hand, the parenchymula develops into an actinula within the maternal tissues, and is then set free, creeps about for a time, and after fixing itself, changes into a polyp; hence in this case the planula-stage, as a free larva, is entirely suppressed.

The climate is so dry, and the rains are so scarce, that an absence of forests and Alpine meadows is characteristic of the ridge; but when heavy rain falls simultaneously with the melting of the snows in the mountains, the watercourses become filled with furious torrents, which create great havoc. The main glaciers (12) are on the north slope, but none creeps below io,000 to 12,000 ft.

It therefore creeps up the side of the glass dragging the strong wine after it, and this goes on till the quantity of fluid dragged up collects into a drop and runs down the side of the glass.

The nuts which are infested by this insect are usually the first to fall to the ground; the larva then bores a round hole through the nut shell, by means of its jaws, and creeps out.

My flesh creeps, and my body all does quake, When I think on't, I cannot sleep in peace!

The remnants of architecture achieve a melancholy reverie as ivy creeps up a lonely column.

One of the most troublesome pests of the interior is a minute degenerate spider of the genus Ixodes, called carrapato, or bush-tick, which breeds on the ground and then creeps up the grass blades and bushes where it waits for some passing man or beast.

Sage-hens, grouse and small birds the coyote hunts successfully alone, quartering over the ground like a trained pointer until he succeeds in locating his bird, when he drops flat in the grass and creeps forward like a cat until close enough for the final spring."

My flesh creeps, and my body all does quake, When I think o n't, I cannot sleep in peace !

Yet, every year, it creeps up on people who find themselves in the checkout line at midnight on the eve of the holiday picking up whatever is left over to get for that person you forgot.

Keep in mind that this schedule is not set in stone, so if you find something unexpected creeps into your day don't panic.

You never know what kind of creeps are lurking about when it comes to websites geared toward kids.

When the party in question includes a celebrity or two (or more) and the order creeps up into the hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of dollars, it's certainly anticipated that the tip will be commensurate.

This trunk never rises, but creeps along the ground, its underground rhizomes freely giving off young plants in rich open soils.

Be sure to also check out their versions of Man in the Box and Head Creeps.

Every so often there creeps into the news a story about a family who was supposedly homeschooling but sadly, the child being homeschooled was abused.

It is gritty and itchy and creeps into uncomfortable places.

In fact, keep a laundry basket near the door to your home office so that house stuff that creeps in (toys, blankets, books and other items) can be set inside the basket for redistribution later.

In some cases, the weight does come off quite rapidly, but unfortunately, it creeps right back on.

Jenn snorted, wondering how she explained there was only one vamp in an entire organization of inhuman blood suckers that gave her the creeps.

God can dumbness keep While Sin creeps grinning through His house of Time.

In the former case the larva creeps along the tadpole until it reaches the branchial opening into which it darts, fixes its sucker, and then throws off its cilia.

After several moults the rudiments of two pairs of wings appear, and then the insect creeps up to the surface of the earth, and on to the vine.

Sometimes he gave her the creeps, and she suspected he was sharper than he let on.

This crushing may take place either from above or below, producing what are known as " creeps " or " sits."

Nevertheless, the krait is probably the most destructive snake to human life in India, since it is very common and often creeps into the houses.