| Creep: English to English |
| Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. |
| Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground. |
| Creep (n.) The act or process of creeping. |
| Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. |
| Creep (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. |
| Creep (v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4. |
| Creep (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. |
| Creep (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us. |
| Creep (v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. |
| Creep (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. |
| Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep. |