Synonyms for creeps
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kreeps |
| Phonetic Transcription : krips |
Top 10 synonyms for creeps Other synonyms for the word creeps
Définition of creeps
Origin :- Old English creopan "to creep" (class II strong verb; past tense creap, past participle cropen), from Proto-Germanic *kreupanan (cf. Old Frisian kriapa, Middle Dutch crupen, Old Norse krjupa "to creep"), from PIE root *greug-. Related: Crept; creeping.
- verb crawl along, usually on ground
- Weird places some of them, too—gives me the creeps to think of them sometimes!
- Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- It's foolish, but that still and the liquor gives me the creeps.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- I hide the box of bug powder when I hear two other creeps come running.
- Extract from : « Operation Earthworm » by Joe Archibald
- These men gave him the creeps, innocent of all guilt though he was.
- Extract from : « The Spoilers of the Valley » by Robert Watson
- It gave me the creeps, and that is a sensation that does not bother me very much these days.
- Extract from : « Frontier Boys in Frisco » by Wyn Roosevelt
- She creeps and creeps, and finds the key and unlocks the door.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- It creeps on him, little by little, as it has on other men in his place, but it does creep on.
- Extract from : « True Words for Brave Men » by Charles Kingsley
- He was like the dog that creeps to lie at the feet of his sorrowing mistress.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Blood » by Robert Smythe Hichens
- He creeps along to his left and finds that its general course is from the southwest.
- Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King
- Mrs. Wilson averred that such a question gave her the "creeps."
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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