Unscramble creep

Definition of creep

noun:

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy.
• a slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
• a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
• 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". Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping.

verb:

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed". Synonyms: crawl.
• to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house". Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak.
• grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings".
• show submission or fear. Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel.

Related words

formicate.

Words nearby

cheep, cree, creed, creek, creel, creeps, creepy.

Rhymes with

asleep, beep, bleep, bopeep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep, keep, leap, oversleep, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, streep, sweep, weep.