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creeps   (TTS Sound)

The noun creeps has 2 senses

• creeps -- (a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait)


• creeps -- (a feeling of fear and revulsion; "he gives me the creeps")

The noun creep has 4 senses

• creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook -- (someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric)


• creep -- (a slow longitudinal movement or deformation)


• creep -- (a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot)


• crawl, crawling, creep, creeping -- (a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep")

The verb creep has 4 senses

• crawl, creep -- (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")


• sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot -- (to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house")


• creep -- (grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings")


• fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel -- (show submission or fear)