Crept

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crept \Crept\ (kr[e^]pt),
     imp. & p. p. of {Creep}.
     [1913 Webster] Crepuscle

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[e^]pt) ({Crope}
     (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.]
     [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G.
     kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. {Cripple},
     {Crouch}.]
     1. 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.
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              Ye that walk
              The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from
        unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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              The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
              Unwillingly to school.                --Shak.
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              Like a guilty thing, I creep.         --Tennyson.
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     3. 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.
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              The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of
              argument.                             --Locke.
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              Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
              lead captive silly women.             --2. Tim. iii.
                                                    6.
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     4. 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.
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     5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;
        to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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              To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak.
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     6. 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. "Creeping vines." --Dryden.
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     7. 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.
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     8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a
        submarine cable.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crept
       See {creep}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  creep
       n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: {weirdo}, {weirdie},
             {weirdy}, {spook}]
       2: a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
       3: a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but
          adults cannot
       4: a slow creeping 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" [syn: {crawl},
           {crawling}, {creeping}]
       v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body
            near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the
            riverbed" [syn: {crawl}]
       2: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around
          spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: {sneak}, {mouse}, {steal},
           {pussyfoot}]
       3: grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example);
          "ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings"
          [syn: {grow over}]
       4: show submission or fear [syn: {fawn}, {crawl}, {cringe}, {cower},
           {grovel}]
       [also: {crept}]