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Words with a similar base: creeps

'creeps'

[creeps.n.01] as in: a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait

'creeps'

[creeps.n.02] as in: a feeling of fear and revulsion

Examples:
he gives me the creeps

'creeps'

[creep.n.01] as in: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

'creeps'

[creep.n.02] as in: a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

'creeps'

[creep.n.03] as in: a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

'creeps'

[crawl.n.03] as in: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

Examples:
a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
the traffic moved at a creep

'creeps'

[crawl.v.01] as in: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

Examples:
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed

'creeps'

[sneak.v.01] as in: to go stealthily or furtively

Examples:
..stead

of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

'creeps'

[creep.v.03] as in: grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

Examples:
ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings

'creeps'

[fawn.v.01] as in: show submission or fear