creep
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Types & categories
- unpleasant person hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
Types & categories
- change of location hypernym
Related & opposite
- crawl derivation
Sense 4 verb
to go stealthily or furtively
..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house
Types & categories
- walk hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
Types & categories
- pen hypernym
Sense 6 verb
grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings
Types & categories
- diffuse hypernym
Related & opposite
- creeper derivation
Sense 7 noun
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
Types & categories
- locomotion hypernym
Related & opposite
- crawl derivation
Sense 8 verb
show submission or fear
Types & categories
- bend hypernym
Related & opposite
- coward derivation
- apple polisher derivation
- crawler derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mouse |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | creepy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unpleasant person |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | earthworm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | creep |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | creeper |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | formicate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change of location |
| 4 | also see | Related & opposite | slip away |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | creeper |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | creep |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | prowler |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | walk |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | pen |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | creeper |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | diffuse |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | locomotion |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | coward |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | apple polisher |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawler |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | bend |