Synonyms 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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Matched Categories

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. creepverb

   Synonyms:
   crawl

2. creepverb

   Synonyms:
   steal, glide stealthily, come unnoticed

3. creepverb

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cringe, play the sycophant

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1. List of paraphrases for "creep":

   deformation, vermin, monster, bastard, freak, asshole

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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. Jonathan Cavenagh:

   Still, with an already weak inflation backdrop, a little bit of MAS easing expectation may creep back into the market, so hard not to see USD/SGD higher on the back of this, with the 1.3700 level now a reasonable upside target.

3. Søren Kierkegaard:

   Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

4. Clifton Fadiman:

   Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

5. Bret Nilles:

   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?'.