creep up
攀升,蠕变,爬升,攀爬
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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.
- : to sneak up behind someone or without someone's knowledge: The prisoners crept up on the guard and knocked him out.
- : to enter or become evident inconspicuously, gradually, or insidiously The writer's personal bias occasionally creeps into the account.
- : to move or behave timidly or servilely.
- : to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant.
- : to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else.
- : Slang. to flirt with or make persistent sexual advances toward someone: He creeps on all the women he meets.to cheat on one’s sexual partner: He caught his wife creepin' with the guy who lives next-door.
- : Slang. to follow someone persistently or stealthily, as on a social media website: He spends a lot of time creeping on her Facebook profile.
- : Slang. to suddenly intrude into someone’s photograph as it is being taken: Who’s that creeping in the background of the picture?
- : to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced.
- : to become deformed, as under continuous loads or at high temperatures.
- : Nautical. to grapple: The ships crept for their anchor chains.
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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.
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- : 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.
- : Slang. creeper.
- : a gradual or inconspicuous increase, advance, change, or development: Avoid jargon creep in your writing.We are seeing the steady creep of consumerism.
- : Geology. the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction. the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.
- : Mechanics. the gradual, permanent deformation of a body produced by a continued application of heat or stress.
- : a grappling iron; grapnel.
- : Firearms. the slack in a trigger mechanism before it releases the firing pin.
- : creep feeder.
- : the creeps, Informal. a sensation of horror, fear, disgust, etc., suggestive of the feeling induced by something crawling over the skin: That horror movie gave me the creeps.
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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.
Phrases
- creep up on
- make one's flesh creep
- the creeps
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Examples
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.