[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.", "to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily (often followed byup):We crept up and peeked over the wall.", "to move or advance slowly or gradually:The automobile crept up the hill. Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days.Synonyms: poke , dawdle , crawl , inch", "to sneak up behind someone or without someone's knowledge (usually followed byup on):The prisoners crept up on the guard and knocked him out.", "to enter or become evident inconspicuously, gradually, or insidiously (often followed byinorinto:)The writer's personal bias occasionally creeps into the account.", "to move or behave timidly or servilely.", "to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant.", "to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else.", "Slang.to flirt with or make persistent sexual advances toward someone (often followed byon):He creeps on all the women he meets.to cheat on ’s partner:He caught his wife creepin' with the guy who lives next-door.", "to flirt with or make persistent sexual advances toward someone (often followed byon):He creeps on all the women he meets.", "to cheat on ’s partner:He caught his wife creepin' with the guy who lives next-door.", "Slang.to follow someone persistently or stealthily, as on a social media website (often followed byon):He spends a lot of time creeping on her Facebook profile.", "Slang.to suddenly intrude into someone’s photograph as it is being taken:Who’s that creeping in the background of the picture?", "to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced.", "(of a metal object) to become deformed, as under continuous loads or at high temperatures.", "Nautical.to grapple (usually followed byfor):The ships crept for their anchor chains."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Slang.to follow persistently or stealthily, especially online:I’ve been creeping her blog and found some great recipes.", "Archaic.to creep along or over."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an act or instance of creeping:It seems as if time has slowed to a creep.", "Slang.an obnoxious, disturbingly eccentric, deviant, or painfully introverted person.", "Slang.an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy.", "Slang. creeper(def10) creeper(def10).", "a gradual or inconspicuous increase, advance, change, or development:Avoid jargon creep in your writing.We are seeing the steady creep of consumerism.", "Geology.the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction .the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.", "the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction .", "the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.", "Mechanics.the gradual, permanent deformation of a body produced by a continued application of heat or stress.", "a grappling iron; grapnel .", "Firearms.the slack in a trigger mechanism before it releases the firing pin.", "creep feeder creep feeder.", "the creeps,Informal.a sensation of horror, fear, disgust, etc., suggestive of the feeling induced by something crawling over the skin:That horror movie gave me the creeps."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["Informal.to cause to experience uneasiness or disgust:I was so creeped out that I had to sleep with the lights on.She’s been getting crank calls that are creeping her out.I was so creeped out that I had to sleep with the lights on."]}]