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

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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

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. Jane Goodall:

   Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

2. D. H. Lawrence:

   We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

3. Patrick Murray:

   We don't know if it's one of the top-eaten candies, but it does have a fan base. And candy corn make great fake teeth to creep out your parents with.

4. Helen Keller:

   One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

5. Ingrid Weir:

   Before saying anything, always think to yourself, "Since my life is not a porno, will this creep her out?"