Definitions for crept

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crept crept

Spelling: [krept]

IPA: /krɛpt/

Crept is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in crept (ceprt).

Definitions for crept

noun

1. an act or instance of creeping:
2. Slang. an obnoxious, disturbingly eccentric, deviant, or painfully introverted person.
3. Slang. an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy.
4. Slang. creeper (def 10).
5. a gradual or inconspicuous increase, advance, change, or development:
6. Geology. the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction. the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.
7. Mechanics. the gradual, permanent deformation of a body produced by a continued application of heat or stress.
8. a grappling iron; grapnel.
9. Firearms. the slack in a trigger mechanism before it releases the firing pin.
10. creep feeder.
11. the creeps, Informal. a sensation of horror, fear, disgust, etc., suggestive of the feeling induced by something crawling over the skin:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of creep.

Idioms

1. make one's flesh creep, to be frightening or repellent; cause one to experience uneasiness:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to follow persistently or stealthily, especially online:
2. Archaic. to creep along or over.

verb (used without object)

1. to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
2. to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily (often followed by up):
3. to move or advance slowly or gradually:
4. to sneak up behind someone or without someone's knowledge (usually followed by up on):
5. to enter or become evident inconspicuously, gradually, or insidiously (often followed by in or into:) The writer's personal bias occasionally creeps into the account.
6. to move or behave timidly or servilely.
7. to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant.
8. to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else.
9. Slang. to flirt with or make persistent sexual advances toward someone (often followed by on): to cheat on one’s sexual partner:
10. Slang. to follow someone persistently or stealthily, as on a social media website (often followed by on):
11. Slang. to suddenly intrude into someone’s photograph as it is being taken:
12. to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced.
13. (of a metal object) to become deformed, as under continuous loads or at high temperatures.
14. Nautical. to grapple (usually followed by for):

Origin of crept

before 900; Middle English crepen, Old English crēopan; cognate with Dutch kruipen, Old Norse krjūpa

Examples for crept

A new respect for him, also a new pity that was generous and not contemptuous, crept into his heart.

Into these last words there crept the pathos of one who knew.

Bending, with a breaking heart, I touched the marble drapery with my lips, then crept back into the silent house.

“It just crept up on me that the grace period is over,” Mulaney says about his subway-chase revelation that he was getting older.

This was music that had to be crept up on, music to be learned from the ground up.

And into his thoughts now crept a doubt, one that alarmed his sense of justice.

We crept along the cañon rim and saw our man at the bottom of it.

Hester crept gently towards it, and Amy after her, not attempting to stop her.

At one point, my friends and I crept to my car with four giant kitchen knives in hand.

I crept to the door: the organ broke out overhead with a blare.