What are some opposite words for creep?
Antonyms for creep
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creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
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wraith, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, spook, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawlcreepnoun
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
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crawling, weirdie, weirdy, weirdo, crawl, spook, creepingcreepnoun
a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
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crawling, weirdie, weirdy, weirdo, crawl, spook, creepingcrawl, 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"
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crawl, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook, creepingcrawl, creepverb
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
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crawl, pussyfoot, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringesneak, mouse, creep, pussyfootverb
to go stealthily or furtively
"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
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cower, cabbage, filch, sneak, slip, fawn, snarf, purloin, crawl, grovel, nobble, cringe, pinch, hook, lift, swipe, pussyfoot, mouse, pilfer, abstractcreepverb
grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
"ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
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crawl, pussyfoot, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringefawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb
show submission or fear
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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?
That question starts to creep into people's minds in terms of, 'Is this guy going to be around for eight years after the election?'.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
People can be forgiven for writing off the idea that Texas is ever going to be Democratic because they have probably heard that before, but we have seen Texas creep toward better Democratic performance for a long time. And if just that state alone... gets into a place where it is legitimately competitive, it has huge consequences for the electoral map.
Morgans Financial analyst James Wilson:
It could continue to creep lower if companies start showing strong quarterly production figures this month, as expected.
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.
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