Crept is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CREPT in dictionary:

VERB:
• CREEP, to advance stealthily
• move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed
• (of a thing) move very slowly and inexorably
• (of a plant) grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches
• (of a plastic solid) undergo gradual deformation under stress.
• (of a negative characteristic or fact) occur or develop gradually and almost imperceptibly
• increase slowly but steadily in number or amount
NOUN:
• a detestable person
• a person who behaves obsequiously in the hope of advancement.
• slow steady movement, especially when imperceptible
• the tendency of a car with automatic transmission to move when in gear without the accelerator being pressed
• the gradual downward movement of disintegrated rock or soil due to gravity
• the gradual deformation of a plastic solid under stress
• gradual bulging of the floor of a mine owing to pressure on the pillars
• an opening in a hedge or wall for an animal to pass through
• a feeding enclosure for young animals, with a long, narrow entrance
• solid food given to young farm animals in order to wean them
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to crawl
• imp. & p. p. of Creep.
• past tense of creep

Words related to CREPT

creep9 creeped12 creeping13 creeps10

How to use CREPT in a sentence

• He had just crept off to fetch medicine for the two.
• The insidious mass crept higher and higher on her body.
• The children could see how they crept along under the ice-covering.
• He watched it steadily, as it crept up, inch by inch, slowly.
• I crept down to the river again, and went along there for a bit, looking for a chance of leaving it under cover for the farm.
• The lad gave himself up for lost, but, intending to make a desperate fight for it, despite his weakness, his hand crept to the hammer and trigger of his rifle.
• Though the greatest care has been taken to avoid errors, some mistakes have doubtless crept in and the author would be glad to have these pointed out.
• And Dudley crept out of the room feeling more forlorn and wretched than ever.
• So she let him pass out, and then crept back, downcast, shocked, ashamed, up the slope to the house.
• A parcel of them, routiers and brigands, have crept into an old castle on the road, and hold it for their own hands.
• She crept back to her bed and lay there with her heart throbbing and her eyes on the edges of moonlight that slipped in over the trampled sage leaves.
• The wind blew down through the old chimney, and the frost had crept in through the cracks in the wall.
• The canoes crept gradually nearer, and bullets began to strike the ship frequently.
• He crept along in the shadows, lying still whenever a soldier passed near him.
• Perhaps some secret animosities, naturally to be expected in that situation, had crept in among the great men, and had enabled the king to recover his authority.
• Blanche crept back into the shanty and bent above the stove, shivering violently.
• Have I at length found a few brave citizens who have not crept out of sight? Jetter.
• The guards were posted round the tree in three rows, so close that not a mouse could have crept between them unobserved.
• The bellows hissed, and the old smell Crept on the air of smoking peat, And round the spark a bubbling flame Grew bright and loud.
• He had crept up the back stairs, and donned his best necktie, and changed his heavy boots for a pair of shoes, which left exposed to view a portion of his blue yarn socks.
• Then the elder crept softly up the stairs, and after a short struggle he succeeded in grasping the dog by one of its hind legs.
• Abuse crept into that parish, which in the time of his predecessor had been one of the most orderly in Mr.
• Like a wounded quail with lowered crest and trailing wing, she crept back to her hiding-place.
• Late in the afternoon Griselda crept up to the ante-room, and sat down by the window.
• It seemed to him that poison had crept into those dreams.

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