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CREEPED
◐ IN SOME DICTIONARIES
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✗
Classic
5
pts
Big
5
pts
Super Big
5
pts
CREEPED is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in TWL06 and SOWPODS but not ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.
CREEPED root CREEP-ed
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verb
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intransitiveTo move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- intransitiveTo grow across a surface rather than upwards.
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intransitiveTo move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
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intransitiveTo make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- Prices have been creeping up all year.
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idiomaticTo move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- Old age creeps upon us.
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To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- 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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To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- A creeping sycophant.
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To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- The sight made my flesh creep.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- intransitiveslangTo covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
noun
- countableuncountableThe movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- countableuncountableA relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- countableuncountableA slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
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uncountableThe gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- Christmas creep
- feature creep
- instruction creep
- mission creep
- countableuncountableIn sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- countableuncountableAn increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- countableuncountableThe imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- countablederogatoryinformaluncountableSomeone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- countablederogatoryespeciallyinformaluncountableA person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- countableuncountableA barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.