creep
Definition
- n. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- n. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- n. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- v. grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
Word forms
- Past tense
- crept
- Present participle
- creeping
- Past participle
- crept
- Third person singular
- creeps
Example sentences
n.
The creep of the snail was slow and steady across the path.
vi.
The vines began to creep up the side of the house.