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creep  audio  (krp) KEY 

intr.v.
crept  (krpt) KEY , creep·ing, creeps
  1. To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
    1. To move stealthily or cautiously.
    2. To move or proceed very slowly: Traffic creeps at that hour.
  3. Botany
    1. To grow or spread along a surface, rooting at intervals or clinging by means of suckers or tendrils.
    2. To grow horizontally under the ground, as the rhizomes of many plants.
  4. To slip out of place; shift gradually.
  5. To have a tingling sensation, made by or as if by things moving stealthily: a moan that made my flesh creep.
NOUN:
  1. The act of creeping; a creeping motion or progress.
  2. Slang An annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person.
  3. A slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure.
  4. A slow change in a characteristic of electronic equipment, such as a decrease in power with continued usage.
  5. Geology The slow movement of rock debris and soil down a weathered slope.
  6. creeps Informal A sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin: That house gives me the creeps.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English crepen, from Old English cropan


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