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. Jason Sudeikis:

   I got worried that the kid would think I was a creep or something.

2. Morgans Financial analyst James Wilson:

   This is the downside of the $50-$60 range where iron ore belongs in this stage of the cycle, it could continue to creep lower if companies start showing strong quarterly production figures this month, as expected.

3. Catherine Anunciacion:

   Peekawoo doesn't have the kind of vibe that attracts individuals who are looking for a hook-up, interactions have been comfortable so far: no creep encounters!

4. Trent Yawney:

   Even the third period against the Islanders, I could see it start to creep in a little bit, and we knew it was around the corner, i didn’t know if it was going to be tonight, but it was coming, because we were getting away with some things that we weren’t getting away with earlier, but you end up with a win. Now we've just got to reset again and start all over.

5. Mike Conley:

   I think we’re all kind of prepared for it to creep in because it’s everywhere. And right now, it’s on all of us to be responsible and try to practice our social distancing, and we’ve got new requirements from the league in order to help with that around our locker rooms and in public. So just trying to try to wear a mask and do our best to not catch it.