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"word": "creeping barberry"
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"word": "creeping buttercup"
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"word": "creeping Charlie"
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"word": "creeping disease"
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"word": "creeping elegance"
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"word": "creeping eruption"
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"word": "creeping Jesus"
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"word": "creeping normality"
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"word": "creeping sage"
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"word": "creeping thistle"
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"word": "creeping thyme"
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"word": "creeping water bug"
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"word": "creep on"
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"word": "creep out"
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"word": "creep up"
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"word": "creep up on"
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"word": "creepy"
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"word": "creepy-crawly"
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"word": "give someone the creeps"
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"word": "make someone's flesh creep"
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"word": "make someone's skin creep"
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"word": "mopery with intent to creep"
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"5": "to turn, wind"
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”)",
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"expansion": "West Frisian krippe",
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{
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{
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"2": "kruipen",
"3": "",
"4": "to creep, crawl"
},
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"4": "to creep"
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"3": "",
"4": "to creep"
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"expansion": "Danish krybe (“to creep”)",
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{
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"expansion": "Norwegian krype (“to creep”)",
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"2": "krypa",
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"3": "",
"4": "to stoop"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”)",
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}
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).\nThe noun is derived from the verb.",
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"text": "Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.",
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{
"ref": "1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit",
"text": "One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1994, “On the Huai River”, in A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry, Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, →OCLC, page 138",
"text": "Reed tips face the dawn\nshivering in the autumn wind\nAt P'u-k'ou the winter tide\nhas not yet come\nSunrise on the sandy bank\npocked with narrow caves\nPale frogs and dark crabs\ncreep without end.",
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"To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground."
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"(intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground."
],
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],
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"To grow across a surface rather than upwards."
],
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"(intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards."
],
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"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎlzjá",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "пълзя́"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "stélja se",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "сте́ля се"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "reptar"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "krybe"
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{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kruipen"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kasvaa maata pitkin"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "ramper"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kriechen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kúszik"
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"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "abbarbicarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hau",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "這う"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsutau",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "伝う"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"english": "refers to plants",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "toropā"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "trepar"
},
{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "târî"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stelítʹsja",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "стели́ться"
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{
"_dis1": "2 84 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "reptar"
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{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "klänga"
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"text": "He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1961 November, “More accelerations in the French winter timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670",
"text": "Electrification of the Eastern Region main line from Strasbourg, incidentally, is steadily creeping nearer to Paris, and is now complete as far as Château Thierry, 59 miles away; [...].",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 84",
"text": "She crept up the stairs, keeping well into the side because she knew they were less likely to creak this way.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction."
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"(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction."
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"code": "da",
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"word": "krybe"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "liste"
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{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "kruipen"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "hiipiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "schleichen"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "lopakodik"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "oson"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shinobi yoru",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "忍び寄る"
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{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakaninihi"
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{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "tapanihi"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakameto"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakamoke"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "mōtorotoro"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakatōkihi"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "ngaweki"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "maxidan",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "مخیدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "rastejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krástʹsja",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "кра́сться"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "èalaidh"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 1 55 9 5 1 3 3 2 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "smyga"
}
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},
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Prices have been creeping up all year.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction."
],
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction."
],
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Old age creeps upon us.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Fallacies",
"text": "[…]guard his understanding from being imposed on by the willful or at least undesigned sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield",
"text": "Paranoia strikes deep / Into your life it will creep / It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself."
],
"id": "en-creep-en-verb-LdDZAXaQ",
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[
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[
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[
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"steal in"
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[
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promǎkvam se",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "промъквам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "hiipiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "hivuttautua"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "insinuarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakameto"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakamomoka"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakamoke"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakatōkihi"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakakoko"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "esgueirar"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krástʹsja",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "кра́сться"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podkrádyvatʹsja",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подкра́дываться"
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{
"_dis1": "6 1 8 3 65 1 4 3 3 4",
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"lang": "Swedish",
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"word": "smyga"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.",
"type": "example"
}
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"To slip, or to become slightly displaced."
],
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[
"slip",
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[
"displaced",
"displaced"
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],
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 2 1 3 81 1 3 1 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izplǎzvam se",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"word": "изплъзвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 2 1 3 81 1 3 1 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"word": "vetäytyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 2 1 3 81 1 3 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oplyvátʹ",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оплыва́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 2 1 3 81 1 3 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oplýtʹ",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оплы́ть"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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{
"text": "A creeping sycophant.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn."
],
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[
"servility",
"servility"
],
[
"exaggerate",
"exaggerate"
],
[
"humility",
"humility"
],
[
"fawn",
"fawn#Verb"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "12 1 12 1 9 2 45 6 2 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move or behave with servility",
"word": "nöyristellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 1 12 1 9 2 45 6 2 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move or behave with servility",
"word": "ryömiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 1 12 1 9 2 45 6 2 8",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "presmykátʹsja",
"sense": "to move or behave with servility",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пресмыка́ться"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 2 4 3 2 3 5 5 8 3 12 1 7 2 11 2 6 10 5 5",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Gaits",
"orig": "en:Gaits",
"parents": [
"Body",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"text": "The sight made my flesh creep.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl."
],
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[
"sensation",
"sensation"
],
[
"insect",
"insect"
],
[
"skin",
"skin"
],
[
"body",
"body"
],
[
"crawl",
"crawl"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "6 2 6 2 4 4 3 59 3 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "polazvat me trǎpki",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "полазват ме тръпки"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 2 6 2 4 4 3 59 3 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "värisyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 2 6 2 4 4 3 59 3 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "aiheuttaa väristyksiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 2 6 2 4 4 3 59 3 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "formigar"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 2 6 2 4 4 3 59 3 11",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hormigueo"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable."
],
"id": "en-creep-en-verb-bOltudRF",
"links": [
[
"drag",
"drag"
],
[
"deep",
"deep"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"creeper",
"creeper"
],
[
"recover",
"recover"
],
[
"submarine",
"submarine"
],
[
"cable",
"cable"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 2 4 3 4 1 2 3 72 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tralja",
"sense": "to drag in deep water with creepers",
"word": "траля"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 4 3 4 1 2 3 72 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drag in deep water with creepers",
"word": "naarata"
}
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "African-American Vernacular English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "3 6 3 3 6 15 4 4 14 6 3 1 3 1 3 3 5 6 1 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
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}
],
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{
"ref": "2000, “It Wasn't Me”, performed by Shaggy",
"text": "Honey came in and she caught me red-handed / Creeping with the girl next door / Picture this we were both butt naked / Banging on the bathroom floor",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, “I Don't Wanna Know”, performed by Mario Winans",
"text": "I don't wanna know / If you're playin' me, keep it on the low / 'Cause my heart can't take it anymore / And if you're creepin', please don't let it show",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Sherika Moore, Been Hustlen",
"text": "\"Now you want the nigga out 'cause he creeping with his baby momma.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with."
],
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[
"covertly",
"covertly"
],
[
"have sex",
"have sex"
],
[
"cheat",
"cheat"
]
],
"qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kɹiːp/"
},
{
"ipa": "[kʰɹiːp]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːp"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-creep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-creep.ogg/En-us-creep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-creep.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "krēp"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "21 4 20 14 5 3 2 9 6 16",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "opschuiven"
},
{
"_dis1": "21 4 20 14 5 3 2 9 6 16",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "hivuttautua"
},
{
"_dis1": "21 4 20 14 5 3 2 9 6 16",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "hiipiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "21 4 20 14 5 3 2 9 6 16",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "schleichen"
},
{
"_dis1": "21 4 20 14 5 3 2 9 6 16",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "kúszik"
},
{
"_dis1": "21 4 20 14 5 3 2 9 6 16",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ползти́"
}
],
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}
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"word": "creepmeter"
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "soil creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bracket creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Christmas creep"
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{
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"word": "Coble creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "diffusion creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "dislocation creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "feature creep"
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{
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"word": "focus creep"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"word": "instruction creep"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"word": "mission creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Nabarro-Herring creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Pollyanna creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "power creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "requirement creep",
"word": "requirement creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "scope creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "season creep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "creep-shame"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "creep shot"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "creep joint"
}
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{
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"4": "",
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{
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"3": "*grewbʰ-",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
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{
"args": {
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"3": "",
"4": "to creep"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "krybe",
"3": "",
"4": "to creep"
},
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},
{
"args": {
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"3": "",
"4": "to creep"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "krypa",
"3": "",
"4": "to creep, crawl"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
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"3": "",
"4": "to stoop"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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}
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{
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"The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)."
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[
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{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎlzene",
"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"word": "пълзене"
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{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
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"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"word": "ryömintä"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"word": "matelu"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"word": "kriechen"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"word": "csúszás-mászás"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"word": "خزیدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rastejo"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 4 15 2 4 5 18 4 4 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pólzanije",
"sense": "movement of something that creeps",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "по́лзание"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure."
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 37 1 7 8 26 2 3 9 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎlzene",
"sense": "small gradual change in a measure",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пълзене"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 37 1 7 8 26 2 3 9 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small gradual change in a measure",
"word": "ryömintä"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something."
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
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{
"_dis1": "4 5 63 2 3 5 5 2 4 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slight displacement",
"word": "liikahdus"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 63 2 3 5 5 2 4 7",
"code": "it",
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"word": "scorrimento"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 63 2 3 5 5 2 4 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"word": "spostamento"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 63 2 3 5 5 2 4 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "slight displacement",
"word": "deriva"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 63 2 3 5 5 2 4 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spolzánije",
"sense": "slight displacement",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сполза́ние"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "Christmas creep",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "feature creep",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "instruction creep",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "mission creep",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively."
],
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"(uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
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{
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Publishing",
"orig": "en:Publishing",
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"Industries",
"Mass media",
"Business",
"Culture",
"Media",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Communication",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it."
],
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"ref": "1995, Bob Cattell, Glory in the Cup, page 36",
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"3": "",
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}
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"text": "Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit",
"text": "One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1994, “On the Huai River”, in A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry, Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, →OCLC, page 138",
"text": "Reed tips face the dawn\nshivering in the autumn wind\nAt P'u-k'ou the winter tide\nhas not yet come\nSunrise on the sandy bank\npocked with narrow caves\nPale frogs and dark crabs\ncreep without end.",
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"To grow across a surface rather than upwards."
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"text": "He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "1961 November, “More accelerations in the French winter timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670",
"text": "Electrification of the Eastern Region main line from Strasbourg, incidentally, is steadily creeping nearer to Paris, and is now complete as far as Château Thierry, 59 miles away; [...].",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 84",
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"type": "quotation"
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"text": "Prices have been creeping up all year.",
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"text": "Old age creeps upon us.",
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"ref": "1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Fallacies",
"text": "[…]guard his understanding from being imposed on by the willful or at least undesigned sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.",
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{
"ref": "1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield",
"text": "Paranoia strikes deep / Into your life it will creep / It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away",
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"text": "The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.",
"type": "example"
}
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{
"text": "A creeping sycophant.",
"type": "example"
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[
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"text": "The sight made my flesh creep.",
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[
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"ref": "2000, “It Wasn't Me”, performed by Shaggy",
"text": "Honey came in and she caught me red-handed / Creeping with the girl next door / Picture this we were both butt naked / Banging on the bathroom floor",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, “I Don't Wanna Know”, performed by Mario Winans",
"text": "I don't wanna know / If you're playin' me, keep it on the low / 'Cause my heart can't take it anymore / And if you're creepin', please don't let it show",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Sherika Moore, Been Hustlen",
"text": "\"Now you want the nigga out 'cause he creeping with his baby momma.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
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]
}
],
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},
{
"ipa": "[kʰɹiːp]"
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"rhymes": "-iːp"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎlzjá",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "пълзя́"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stélja se",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "сте́ля се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "reptar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "krybe"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kruipen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kasvaa maata pitkin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "ramper"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kriechen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "kúszik"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "abbarbicarsi"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hau",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "這う"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsutau",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "伝う"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "refers to plants",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "toropā"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "trepar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "târî"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stelítʹsja",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "стели́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "reptar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to grow across a surface rather than upwards",
"word": "klänga"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "krybe"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "liste"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "kruipen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "hiipiä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "schleichen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "lopakodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "oson"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shinobi yoru",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "忍び寄る"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakaninihi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "tapanihi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakameto"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakamoke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "mōtorotoro"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "whakatōkihi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "ngaweki"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "maxidan",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "مخیدن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "rastejar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krástʹsja",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "кра́сться"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "èalaidh"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction",
"word": "smyga"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "opschuiven"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "hivuttautua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "hiipiä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "schleichen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"word": "kúszik"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "polztí",
"sense": "to change or deviate gradually",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ползти́"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promǎkvam se",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "промъквам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "hiipiä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "hivuttautua"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "insinuarsi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakameto"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakamomoka"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakamoke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakatōkihi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "whakakoko"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "esgueirar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krástʹsja",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "кра́сться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podkrádyvatʹsja",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подкра́дываться"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move in a stealthy or secret manner",
"word": "smyga"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izplǎzvam se",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"word": "изплъзвам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"word": "vetäytyä"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oplyvátʹ",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оплыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oplýtʹ",
"sense": "to slip, or to become slightly displaced",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оплы́ть"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move or behave with servility",
"word": "nöyristellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move or behave with servility",
"word": "ryömiä"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "presmykátʹsja",
"sense": "to move or behave with servility",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пресмыка́ться"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "polazvat me trǎpki",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "полазват ме тръпки"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "värisyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "aiheuttaa väristyksiä"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"word": "formigar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hormigueo"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tralja",
"sense": "to drag in deep water with creepers",
"word": "траля"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drag in deep water with creepers",
"word": "naarata"
}
],
"word": "creep"
}
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"ref": "1995, Bob Cattell, Glory in the Cup, page 36",
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