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(v)
(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
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(n)
The act of something that creeps.
(intransitive) To abase oneself before another person.
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
The front crawl swimming stroke.
A style of swimming where the swimmer is face-down in the water and moves the arms in alternating overhead strokes.
A young deer.
(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
(transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
(ambitransitive) To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
A mark left by something that has passed along.
An act of tracing.
(transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
(networking) A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
The act or process by which something is tracked.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
(transitive) To give up; yield to another. [with to]
The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
(transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
(intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
(intransitive) To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
(ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
(intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
(Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
(ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
(transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
(intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
(intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.
(chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
(intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage
Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.
(intransitive) To crawl; creep; slide.
(intransitive) To creep, crawl, or clamber, like a crab
The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae.
(ambitransitive) To move slowly.
(ambitransitive) To crawl about; crawl all over.
Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
To adhere to and crawl upon a solid surface, as a spider does.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
To crawl with one's belly touching the ground
A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
Synonym of crawl before one walks.
(slang) To monitor in a covert and creepy manner; to stalk.
(transitive) To creep up on; stalk
(intransitive, obsolete) To creep secretly or imperceptibly.
A sudden or unsteady movement.
(informal, derogatory) A lazy and slovenly or obese person.
(intransitive) To advance or increase with stealth, unnoticed (literally or figuratively).
A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
(zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
(figurative) Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To crawl upward.
(idiomatic) To learn the basics before doing something at a more advanced level.
The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
(intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
The stem or main axis of a plant.
A bent or stooped position.
(also figuratively) A skittering movement.
(transitive) To crawl faster or farther than.
Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
(transitive, Internet) To crawl again.
Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
(transitive, informal) To surpass in creeping someone out.
A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
(intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.
(intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
(Rochdale, dialectal, intransitive) To stumble after inverting or everting one's foot; to roll (but not necessarily sprain) one's ankle.
(intransitive) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
(intransitive) To crouch, or hunker down.
A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
(UK, archaic, intransitive) To move in a slouching manner.
A Scottish nickname usually applied to people with the first name Hew or Hugh or other spellings of this name.
Alternative form of rutch (“squirm”). [(US, archaic in Yorkshire, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.]
One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
(intransitive, poetic) To move; to proceed; to creep, roam, wander.
Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
(dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.