Creep up

Definition

creep /kri:p/ v ( pt, pp crept ) ၁။ (က) ဝပ္၍၊ တြား၍ သြားသည္။ ခြၽတ္နင္းသြားသည္။ The cat crept silently towards the bird. ❍ They crept downstairs, anxious not to wake the baby. ❍ PROWL (ခ) တျဖည္းျဖည္း ေရြ႕သည္။ တစ္စတစ္စ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ watching the sunlight creep across the window ❍ A feeling of drowsiness crept over him. ❍ creeping along at 10 miles per hour. ၂။ (အပင္) ေျမ၌ တြားသည္။ တြယ္ကပ္တက္သည္။ ႏြယ္တက္သည္။ Ivy had crept up the castle walls. ❍ a creeping, vine. See also CREEPER n ( infml derog ) ကပ္ဖား။ He's a prize/ real creep! ❏ creep in/ into sth [ PHRV ] ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည္။ A number of mistakes had crept in. ❍ New ideas are creeping slowly into the firm. ❏ creeping adj တစ္စတစ္စ ဆိုးလာေသာ။ creeping inflation in the housing market ❍ The disease results in creeping paralysis. ❏ creep up [ PHRV ] ေဈးႏႈန္းစသည္ ျမင့္တက္သည္။ House prices are creeping up again. ❏ creep up on sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ တိတ္တဆိတ္ အနားကပ္ သည္။ She crept up on him from behind. ၂။ မသိမသာႏွင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည္။ Old age soon creeps up on you. ❏ give sb the creeps [ IDM ]( infml ) ၁။ ေက်ာခ်မ္းေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ ၾကက္သီးထေစသည္။ This old house gives me the creeps. ၂။ ေအာ့ႏွလံုးနာသည္။ စက္ဆုပ္သည္။ I can't stand him— he gives me the creeps.

Examples

1. I crept downstairs when everyone was asleep.
2. She crept quietly into bed.
3. His arm crept around her shoulder.
4. A little hand crept across the table and touched my arm.
5. The flames were creeping along the corridor behind him.
6. I watched the sunlight creep across the window.
7. As dusk crept in
8. lights came on.
9. The traffic kept creeping forwards a few inches and then stopping.
10. [creep across/into] : A little smile crept across her mouth.
11. A scarlet flush was creeping into her cheeks.
12. [creep in/into/across] : Suspicion began to creep into her mind.
13. She felt a tingling sensation creep across the back of her neck.