creepverb [ I usually + adv/prep ] uk
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/kriːp/ crept | crept
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C2 to move slowly, quietly, and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed: creep through She turned off the light and crept through the door.creep around Someone was creeping around outside my window. The spider crept up the wall.creep along The traffic was creeping along at a snail's pace.
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to walkwalkThe baby has just learned to walk. strideShe strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.marchHe marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.strollWe strolled along the beach.wanderShe wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.ambleShe ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
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to move slowlycrawlThere'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling.trundleLorries trundle through the narrow lanes.creepHe crept downstairs, hardly making any noise.trudgeThey trudged wearily through the snow.strollWe spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest.ambleHe ambled over to the window.
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“SMART 词汇”：相关单词和短语
Moving to avoid being seen
prowl
skulk
slink
sneak
spirit
stalk
stalking
steal
stealth
stealthily
stealthy
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Slow and moving slowly
短语动词
creep in/creep into something
creep over someone
creep up
creep up on/behind someone
creep up on someone
creepnoun
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creep noun
(PERSON)
[ C ] UK someone who tries to make someone more important like them by being very polite and helpful in a way that is not sincere: Making coffee for the boss again? You creep!
C2 [ C ] an unpleasant person, especially a man: He was such a creep - he was always staring at me in the canteen. [ as form of address ] Leave me alone, creep!
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Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrape idiom
crawler
cuddle
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
hagiographic
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone phrasal verb
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
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creep noun
(GROWTH)
[ U ] the gradual growth or increase of something in a way that was not expected or wanted: There is growing evidence that labour cost creep is becoming a problem. 也请参见
mission creep
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Increasing and intensifying
accretion
accumulate
accumulative
accumulatively
add fuel to something
blaze
crank
go into orbit idiom
go up phrasal verb
growing
growingly
heighten
inflation
mushroom
ramp
ramp something up phrasal verb
ratchet something up/down phrasal verb
re-escalate
re-escalation
stake
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give someone the creeps
to cause someone to have uncomfortable feelings of nervousness or fear: Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.
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creep | 美式英语词典
creepverb [ I always + adv/prep ] us
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creep verb [I always + adv/prep]
(MOVE CAREFULLY)
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past tense and past participle crept us/krept/ to move quietly and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed: I crept around the corner, hoping my brother wouldn’t see me.
creep verb [I always + adv/prep]
(MOVE SLOWLY)
past tense and past participle crept to move very slowly: We were creeping along in rush-hour traffic.
短语动词
creep up on someone
creepnoun [ C ]
slang us
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creep noun [C]
(PERSON)
a person you think is unpleasant and to be avoided: That guy upstairs is such a creep.
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creep | 商务英语
creepverb [ I ] uk
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to change very slowly, especially to increase: Fuel prices dropped in April, but they are starting to creep higher now.
短语动词
creep in/creep into sth
creep up/creep upwards
creepnoun [ U ] uk
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slow and gradual change, especially when something increases: Gasoline price creep has been noticeable recently. The economic crisis now has a new dimension: the steady creep of inflation.
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creep的例句
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A handful of minor typographical errors have crept in (mostly punctuation), and the odd table is poorly labelled.
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As the creeping ray propagates along the surface, it continuously emits surface-diffracted rays ud with exponentially decreasing initial amplitude.
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A strong interaction theory for the creeping motion of a sphere between plane parallel boundaries.
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Expression of pokeweed antiviral proteins in creeping bentgrass.
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Another troubling point has to do with the seeming anthropomorphism that has crept into the debate about the "real" function of an adaptation.
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I apologize in advance if any inaccuracies or discrepancies have crept in during production.
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The audience, in a sense, became the enemy, as she had to keep out of their view while stealthily creeping along to reach the actors.
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Our results that creeping cercariae sensitively and specifically orientate along increasing arginine gradients suggested a role of arginine as an intraspecific pheromone.
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A corner within the illuminated region also leads to an expansion fan and hence to creeping fields.
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A similar blandness creeps into his theoretical statements because of his desire not to overgeneralise or be deterministic.
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As provincial firms grew in scale and influence, advertisements for their products crept into the pages of the national press and specialist periodicals.
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As the deer resumes its activity, the hunter creeps toward the deer again.
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The first was creeping desiccation as reflected in the shrinkage of the wetlands.
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Similar analyses to those described above still apply but some interesting extra features emerge, particularly with respect to the creeping field.
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The academic operation may be successful, but the patients may be dying, especially in these times of creeping illiteracy.
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