creep

1. v. t. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. Source: opted

3. v. t. 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. Source: opted

4. v. t. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. Source: opted

6. v. t. 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. Source: opted

7. v. t. 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. Source: opted

8. v. i. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. Source: opted

9. n. The act or process of creeping. Source: opted

10. n. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. Source: opted

11. n. 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. Source: opted

12. n. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric Source: wordnet

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