creep /krēp/

1. To move with the belly on or near the ground
2. To move or advance slowly or stealthily
3. To slip or encroach very gradually
4. To develop insidiously
5. To grow along the ground or on supports, as a vine does
6. To fawn or cringe
7. (of the skin or flesh) to have a shrinking sensation, as a concomitant of horror, etc
8. To shudder
9. To drag with a creeper (nautical)
10. To undergo creep (metallurgy)

To creep on

1. The act or process or creeping
2. A slow slipping or yielding to stress
3. Crystallization or rise of a precipitate on the side of a vessel above the surface of a liquid
4. Gradual alteration of shape under stress (metallurgy)
5. A narrow passage
6. An enclosure in which young farm animals may feed, with an approach too narrow to admit the mother
7. A cringing, unassertive or otherwise unpleasant person (slang)

creepˈer noun

1. Someone or something that creeps
2. A creeping plant, eg the Virginia creeper
3. A small bird that runs up trees, a tree creeper (N American)
4. A kind of grapnel used for dragging the seabed, etc (nautical)
5. An endless chain or conveyor
6. A crêpe-soled, or other soft-soled, shoe (informal)
7. A wheeled board on which one may lie and move about while working under a vehicle
8. A ball that stays low after bouncing (cricket)

creepˈered adjective

Covered with a creeper

creepˈie noun

1. A low stool
2. A stool of repentance

creepˈily adverb

creepˈiness noun

creepˈing adjective

• purchase money
• purchase order
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• purchaser
• purchasers
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• purdah
• purdah bus
• purdah carriage
• purdahed
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• Purdey
• purdonium
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• pure
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• rehabilitating
• rehabilitation
• rehabilitations
• rehabilitative
• rehabilitator
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