creep

Nouns

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

Verbs

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

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Words of close approximity