Definitions
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Word origin
From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”).
Used in a sentence
“Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.”
“One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.”
“Reed tips face the dawn shivering in the autumn wind At P'u-k'ou the winter tide has not yet come Sunrise on the sandy bank pocked with narrow caves Pale frogs and dark crabs creep without end.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Go very slowly”5 letters
02“Move slowly”5 letters
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