| 单词 | creep |
| 释义 | creep (once / 126 pages) 1vn 2v 3n 4n A beetle creeps along the ground. Moving slowly and silently, it creeps up on you. When you feel the touch of tiny insect legs on your skin, you shudder, because bugs give you the creeps. Creep has a long history and a subtle variety of meanings. In its earliest recorded usage, it described the movement of legless creatures like snakes and worms. By the sixteenth century, creep meant "move slowly" and "move with stealth" like when you creep up to your brother to startle him. Charles Dickens coined the phrase, the creeps, to suggest the shuddering sensation you get when you see something gross and scary. A creep is a person who makes your skin crawl, a meaning that has been used in American English since 1935. WORD FAMILYcreep: creeped, creeper, creeping, creeps, creepy, crept+/creeper: creepers/creeping: creepings/creepy: creepier, creepiest, creepily, creepiness USAGE EXAMPLES“That’s where the mindfulness creeps in,” he said. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The downturn for Nebraska farms and ranches crept into small town main streets across the state. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) It maintained it would cause "considerable harm" and "present a creeping domestication" to the surrounding area. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground Syn|Hypo|Hyper crawl formicate crawl about like ants go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v go stealthily or furtively Syn|Hyper mouse, pussyfoot, sneak walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 3v grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings Hyper diffuse, fan out, spread, spread out move outward 4n a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body the traffic moved at a creep Syn|Hyper crawl, crawling, creeping locomotion, travel self-propelled movement 5n a slow longitudinal movement or deformation 2Hyper change of location, travel a movement through space that changes the location of something v show submission or fear 3Syn|Hyper cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel bend, flex form a curve n someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric 4Syn|Hyper spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable n a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot Hyper pen an enclosure for confining livestock |
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