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Crept

verb
/ˈkɹɛpt/
Word Frequency: 3.5

Definitions

1.verbTo move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
2.verbOf plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3.verbTo move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
4.verbTo make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
5.verbTo move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
6.verbTo slip, or to become slightly displaced.
7.verbTo move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
8.verbTo have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
9.verbTo drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
10.verbTo covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Synonyms

crawlcrawlededgedinfiltratedintroducedmadeoccurredpushedslidslippedsneakedstole

Rhymes With

adeptineptpreceptacceptinterceptpreppedleaptswept
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