Tra từ creep - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

creep [creep creeps crept creeping] verb, noun BrE [kriːp] NAmE [kriːp]
verb (crept, creptBrE [krept] ; NAmE [krept] ) In the phrasal verb creep sb out, creeped is used for the past simple and past participle.
1. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) (of people or animals)to move slowly, quietly and carefully, because you do not want to be seen or heard
•I crept up the stairs, trying not to wake my parents.
•I heard someone creeping around the house.
2. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) (NAmE)to move with your body close to the ground; to move slowly on your hands and knees
Syn: ↑crawl
3. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to move or develop very slowly
•Her arms crept around his neck.
•A slight feeling of suspicion crept over me.
4. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) (of plants)to grow along the ground or up walls using long ↑stems or roots
see also ↑creeper
5. intransitive ~ (to sb) (BrE, informal, disapproving)to be too friendly or helpful to sb in authority in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them
see make your flesh creep at ↑flesh _n.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English crēopan ‘move with the body close to the ground’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kruipen. Sense 1 of the verb dates from Middle English.

Example Bank:
•A feeling of dread crept over him.
•Fatigue was creeping up on her.
•He crept stealthily along the corridor.
•He crept up behind me.
•I could hear someone creeping around downstairs.
•Suspicion crept into her voice.
•The cat quietly crept up on the pigeon.
•Don't creep up on me like that!
•He crept forward towards the sound of voices.
•She crept into her sister's room.
•The cat was creeping stealthily through the long grass.
•Trucks are creeping along Interstate 70 in convoys.
Idiom: ↑give somebody the creeps
Derived: ↑creep in something ▪ ↑creep somebody out ▪ ↑creep up ▪ ↑creep up on somebody

noun
1. countable (informal)a person that you dislike very much and find very unpleasant
•He's a nasty little creep!
2. countable (BrE, informal)a person who is not sincere but tries to win your approval by being nice to you
•He's the sort of creep who would do that kind of thing!
3. uncountable (in compounds) (often disapproving)the development of a project beyond the goal that was originally agreed
•The World Bank has been accused of mission creep when seeking to address these concerns.
•The inclusion of health data on identity cards was condemned as function creep.

Word Origin:
Old English crēopan ‘move with the body close to the ground’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kruipen. Sense 1 of the verb dates from Middle English.

Example Bank:
•You little creep!
•He's a nasty little creep!