creep up on/behind sb
— phrasal verb with creep uk/kriːp/us/kriːp/verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] crept, crept
to surprise someone and move closer to them without being seen or heard:
Don't creep up on me like that!
We crept up behind her and yelled "Boo!"
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- flabbergast
- revelation
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- stupefy
- thunderbolt
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