Antonyms for creep
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1. CREEPnoun

   Synonyms:
   CRP

2. creepverb

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

   Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

   Synonyms:
   CRP, crawl

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1. • Bend
   • Change Of Location
   • Move
   • Pen
   • Spread Out

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1. creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun

   someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

   Synonyms:
   wraith, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, spook, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawl

2. creepnoun

   a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

   Synonyms:
   crawling, weirdie, weirdy, weirdo, crawl, spook, creeping

3. creepnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   crawling, weirdie, weirdy, weirdo, crawl, spook, creeping

4. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingverb

   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, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook, creeping

5. crawl, creepverb

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

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, pussyfoot, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringe

6. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfootverb

   to go stealthily or furtively

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

   Synonyms:
   cower, cabbage, filch, sneak, slip, fawn, snarf, purloin, crawl, grovel, nobble, cringe, pinch, hook, lift, swipe, pussyfoot, mouse, pilfer, abstract

7. creepverb

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

   "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, pussyfoot, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringe

8. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   cower, sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

How to use creep in a sentence?

1. Eric Stein:

   The Fed will be OK with a slow creep higher, particularly with a backdrop of a recovery, but if it moves too much and destabilizes the recovery, there's a reason for concern.

2. Linda Hamilton:

   That was my hesitation: Do I want to trade this lovely, authentic life for that? I didnt want my neighbors looking at me differently. Were neighbors because of who we are, not what we do, and I dont want that to creep into my life again.

3. Amy Walter:

   We're seeing a touch of optimism creep in, in terms of voters' opinions about the economy, it's not going to turn around overnight. But at least if the trend line is going in the right way, that's good for Democrats. The more Donald Trump is in the spotlight, that's also good for Democrats.

4. Trent Yawney:

   Even the third period against the Islanders, I could see it start to creep in a little bit, and we knew it was around the corner, i didn’t know if it was going to be tonight, but it was coming, because we were getting away with some things that we weren’t getting away with earlier, but you end up with a win. Now we've just got to reset again and start all over.

5. Rory McIlroy:

   It’s just about resetting your goals, just trying to keep improving as a player, try to not let complacency creep in at any point, i think at times when you get successful and you maybe enjoy a little bit of that success, that complacency can creep in.

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