Creep
To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
The act or process of creeping.
A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
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Creep Quotations
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
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.
Soren Kierkegaard
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
Joseph de Maistre
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
William Shenstone
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Laurence Olivier
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Origen
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Theodore Parker
It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
Karen Carpenter
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
Jacqueline McKenzie
Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.
Ben McKenzie
Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
Dyan Cannon
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Cliff Fadiman
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Creep Translations
creep in Afrikaans is kruip
creep in Danish is krybe
creep in Dutch is kruipen
creep in French is ramper, trainent, trainer, trainez, trainons
creep in German is krieche, schleichen, kriechen
creep in Italian is strisciare
creep in Portuguese is rastejamento
creep in Spanish is arrastrarse, arrastrar
creep in Swedish is krypa, smyga
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