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How to pronounce creep in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel
Type of bend, flex
Type Words
Synonyms crawl, crawling, creeping
Type of travel, locomotion


the traffic moved at a creep.
Type Words
Synonyms spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy
Type of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
Derivation creepy
Type Words
Synonyms mouse, pussyfoot, sneak
Type of walk
Derivation creeper
Type Words
Synonyms crawl
Type of go, locomote, move, travel
Has types formicate
Derivation creeper, creeping
Type Words
Type of pen
Type Words
Type of change of location, travel
Type Words
Type of fan out, diffuse, spread, spread out
Derivation creeper

Examples of creep

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Street creep can sometimes cause pavement to shift more than 5 inches, she said.
From the stltoday.com
Because it's located near the liver, fat can creep into the liver and damage it.
From the dispatch.com
Once she started making the mistakes, she said, she let the negativity creep in.
From the dailymercury.com.au
The annoyances creep in when you're fighting with computer-controlled teammates.
From the usatoday.com
Birthday wishes were a popular choice, but gang graffiti also began to creep in.
From the thenewstribune.com
Some might say that kind of negative thinking will creep into their preparation.
From the dallasnews.com
And if wage inflation continues to creep upwards, they are likely to rise again.
From the economist.com
He loves having his camera creep up on sights the audience would rather not see.
From the independent.co.uk
Nerves and mistakes can creep in and you don't play as well as you know you can.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
More examples
  • Crawl: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
  • Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
  • A slow longitudinal movement or deformation
  • Sneak: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
  • A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
  • Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
  • The Committee for the Re-Election of the President, abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration. ...
  • The Creeping Terror (also known as The Crawling Monster and Dangerous Charter) is a 1964 horror/sci-fi film, in which a slug-like monster terrorizes an American town after escaping from a crashed spaceship. ...
  • Creep, (Krip - pijin) (Gara = babatana), refers to a customary practice in Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands whereby males may seek to find a wife.