Creep
noun
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- (A person one dislikes, one who seeks favor by behaving in a servile way, a creeping, an annoying person. -give a person the creeps, to make his flesh creep, to be frightening or repellent, cause one to fell uneasiness) ដំណើររអិលចុះសន្សឹមៗ, ដំណើររបូត (វត្ថុ) យឺតៗ slow to a creep ភាពដ៏យឺត
verb — past tense: Crept ; past participle: Crept ; present participle: Creeping ; 3rd person singular present Creeps
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- (INTRANSITIVE) (To move with the body close to the ground, to move slowly or carefully, to feel as if something were crawling on one's skin, to grow along the ground or a surface by putting forth clinging tendrils) លបចូល, cats creep លូនលបៗ (ដូចឆ្មាលបចាប់ចាប) / vines creep វារ, cars creep ទៅមុខយឺតៗ, creep up on លូនលបៗទៅរកអ្វីមួយ, make the skin creep ធ្វើឱ្យឡើងសម្បុរគីង្គក់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act or process of creeping.
- 2.
- A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
- 3.
- A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
verb — past tense: Crept ; past participle: Crept ; present participle: Creeping ; 3rd person singular present Creeps
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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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- (TRANSITIVE) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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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- (TRANSITIVE) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.