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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
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?
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
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.
Those systems are a giant leap towards tracking people’s location, there’s a very real risk of mission creep once there are scanners at doors and people are showing their scannable token to pass through.
It’s fun to watch her live part of life where the disease doesn’t creep in, where she is just excited to be going and doing something that every child and every teenager gets to do, a lot of times there’s a joy filled moment, but yet there’s a little sorrow.
I don’t know how I can ease the burden of me. Maybe it’d be better if this was just all over. Yes, those thoughts creep in — and they’re real. I can’t ever imagine myself acting on those thoughts, but I definitely have them.
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