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Noun: creeps  kreeps
  1. A disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anaemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
     
  2. [informal] A feeling of fear and revulsion
    "he gives me the creeps"
Noun: creep  kreep
  1. [informal] Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
    - weirdo [informal], weirdie [informal], weirdy [informal]
     
  2. A slow longitudinal movement or deformation
     
  3. A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
    "the traffic moved at a creep";
    - crawl, crawling, creeping
     
  4. A small gradual change or deviation in a quantity
     
  5. A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
Verb: creep (crept)  kreep
  1. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
    "The crocodile was creeping along the riverbed";
    - crawl
     
  2. To go stealthily or furtively
    "..stead of creeping around spying on the neighbour's house";
    - sneak, mouse, pussyfoot [informal]
     
  3. Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
    "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
     
  4. Change or develop gradually

Type of: animal disease, change of location, diffuse, disagreeable person, fan out, fear, fearfulness, fright, go, locomote, locomotion, move, pen, spread, spread out, travel, unpleasant person, walk

Encyclopedia: Creeps

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