creep 的 4 个定义
crept, creep·ing.
- to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
- to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily: We crept up and peeked over the wall.
- to move or advance slowly or gradually: The automobile crept up the hill. Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days.
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crept, creep·ing.
- Slang. to follow persistently or stealthily, especially online: I’ve been creeping her blog and found some great recipes.
- Archaic. to creep along or over.
- an act or instance of creeping: It seems as if time has slowed to a creep.
- Slang. an obnoxious, disturbingly eccentric, deviant, or painfully introverted person.
- Slang. an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy.
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past and past participle creeped out,present participle creeping out.
- creep out, Informal. to cause to experience uneasiness or disgust: She’s been getting crank calls that are creeping her out. I was so creeped out that I had to sleep with the lights on.
creep 近义词
crawl along, usually on ground
由creep构成的短语
- creep up on
- make one's flesh creep
- the creeps
更多creep例句
- Kate concludes that Jeanette may be a creep but that she would be an innocent one.
- The nurse returns with, of all things, “Sabbath’s Theater,” Philip Roth’s sexually explicit work about an aging, suicidal creep.
- Between the labor-intensive work and that superficial creep factor, making miniatures can be solitary or even ostracizing.
- They must slow the creep of mortality until the last possible moment, at which point they abruptly pivot from healers to consolers.
- We can start by refusing to make or use any more digital shackles, and by refusing to let their creep extend one inch—or one use case—further.
- Another acquaintance described Seevakumaran as “a creep,” who would “constantly hit on women.”
- It distorts more and more every day of the month, every year, due to the slow effects of fault creep.
- But generational differences soon creep in, threatening to pull the two couples apart.
- Of course my very first words to that creep had been, “Which way to the mechanical sharks?”
- As the price of gas continues to creep up, it is helpful to find ways to reduce fuel costs.
- He listened to tales of the Igorrotes, who live in huts like beehives and creep into them like insects.
- It was some minutes before the children dared to creep out of the bushes again.
- There, in broad daylight, I saw Maloney deliberately creep closer to the fire and heap the wood on.
- Don't let the idea creep into your head, that I am going to give you a dull and sleepy essay on music.
- I am too sore and bruised to be thankful; I feel, sometimes, as if I could creep into a dark corner and cry my heart out.