creep
US: /ˈkɹip/
UK: /kɹˈiːp/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
creep /kri:p/- danh từ
- (số nhiều) sự ghê rợn, sự rùng mình, sự sởn gáy, sự khiếp đảm, sự hãi hùng
- to give somebody the creeps: làm ai sởn gáy lên
- sự bó, sự trườn
- lỗ hốc (trong hàng rào...)
- (địa lý,địa chất) sự lở (đá...)
- (vật lý) sự dão
- thermal creep: sự dão vì nhiệt
- (số nhiều) sự ghê rợn, sự rùng mình, sự sởn gáy, sự khiếp đảm, sự hãi hùng
- nội động từ crept
- bò, trườn
- đi rón rén, lén, lẻn ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- to creep into the room: lẻn vào phòng
- old age creeps upon one unawares: tuổi già đén với người ta lúc nào không biết
- bò; leo (cây leo)
- có cảm giác râm ran như kiến bò, rùng mình sởn gai ốc
- to make someone's flesh creep: làm cho ai sởn gai ốc
- (nghĩa bóng) luồn cúi, luồn lọt
- to creep into someone's favour: luồn lọt để chiếm được lòng tin yêu của ai
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb (crept, crept [prep.]
1 (of people or animals) to move slowly, quietly and carefully, because you do not want to be seen or heard: I crept up the stairs, trying not to wake my parents. + I heard someone creeping around the house.
2 (AmE) to move with your body close to the ground; to move slowly on your hands and knees
Synonym: CRAWL
3 to move or develop very slowly: A slight feeling of suspicion crept over me.
4 (of plants) to grow along the ground or up walls using long stems or roots
See also -
5 ~ (to sb) (BrE, informal, disapproving) to be too friendly or helpful to sb in authority in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them
Idioms see FLESH n.
Phrasal Verbs: creep in / into sth to begin to happen or affect sth: As the doctors became more tired, errors began to creep into their work.
creep up to gradually increase in amount, price, etc: House prices are creeping up again.
creep up on sb
1 to move slowly nearer to sb, usually from behind, without being seen or heard: Don't creep up on me like that!
2 to begin to affect sb, especially before they realize it: Tiredness can easily creep up on you while you're driving.
+ noun (informal)
1 a person that you dislike very much and find very unpleasant: He's a nasty little creep!
2 (BrE) a person who is not sincere but tries to win your approval by being nice to you: He's the sort of creep who would do that kind of thing!
Idioms: give sb the creeps (informal) to make sb feel nervous and slightly frightened, especially because sb/sth is unpleasant or strange: This old house gives me the creeps.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 crawl, slither, inch, squirm, wriggle, wiggle:
A tiny lizard was creeping up the wall.
2 crawl, drag:
The hours creep by slowly when you have nothing to do.
3 steal, sneak; slink, skulk, tiptoe, Colloq pussyfoot:
The thief must have crept in through the kitchen window. Someone is creeping about out there in the dark.
Collocation
ADV.
quietly | slowly | stealthily | about, around, back, in, out, up
I could hear someone creeping around downstairs. He crept up behind me.
PREP.
along
He crept stealthily along the corridor.
| down, into
(figurative) Suspicion crept into her voice.
| over
(figurative) A feeling of dread crept over him.
| out of, up on
The cat quietly crept up on the pigeon. (figurative) Fatigue was creeping up on her.
Concise dictionary
crept|creeps|creepingkriːpnoun
+someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
+a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
+a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
+a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
verb
+move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
+to go stealthily or furtively
+grow in such a way as to cover (a building)
+show submission or fear
