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We have spotted CREEP (5 Letters) a total of 24 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with CREEP and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
| • | To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. |
| • | To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. |
| • | To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us. |
| • | To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep. |
| • | To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. |
| • | To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. |
| • | To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4. |
| • | To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. |
| • | The act or process of creeping. |
| • | A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. |
| • | A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Advance slowly
- ... oops my mistake
- Lowlife
- Move sneakily
- Crawl like a tot
- Unsavory character
- Move stealthily
- Move slowly
- Move like a snake
- Go slowly
Usage among publishers:
- LA Times: Oct 9, 2024
- New York Times: Jul 26, 2024
- Eugene Sheffer: May 23, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: May 8, 2024
- Newsday: Feb 27, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Oct 18, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Oct 2, 2023
- Newsday: Oct 1, 2023
- Newsday: Aug 28, 2023
- Newsday: Jul 28, 2023