Verb
- 1. crawl, creep, travel, go, move, locomote
- usage: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
- 2. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot, walk
- usage: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- 3. creep, diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out
- usage: grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
- 4. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel, bend, flex
- usage: show submission or fear
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