crawl crawling creep creeping | a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body, a crawl was all that the injured man could manage, the traffic moved at a creep |
song strain | the act of singing, with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates |
strain straining | an intense or violent exertion |
striving nisus pains strain | an effortful attempt to attain a goal |
superbug Bemisia tabaci poinsettia strain | a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias |
cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
creep | a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot |
strain gauge strain gage | a gauge for measuring strain in a surface |
tenor strain | the general meaning or substance of an utterance, although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument |
tune melody air strain melodic line line melodic phrase | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence, she was humming an air from Beethoven |
creep | a slow longitudinal movement or deformation |
creep feed | feed given to young animals isolated in a creep |
breed strain stock | a special variety of domesticated animals within a species, he experimented on a particular breed of white rats, he created a new strain of sheep |
form variant strain var. | (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups, a new strain of microorganisms |
creep weirdo weirdie weirdy spook | someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric |
strain | (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces |
bracket creep | a movement into a higher tax bracket as taxable income increases |
strain | injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse), results in swelling and pain |
strain mental strain nervous strain | (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress, his responsibilities were a constant strain, the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him |
stress strain | difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension, she endured the stresses and strains of life, he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger- R.J.Samuelson |
tense strain tense up | cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious, he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up |
deform distort strain | alter the shape of (something) by stress, His body was deformed by leprosy |
strive reach strain | to exert much effort or energy, straining our ears to hear |
strain extend | use to the utmost, exert vigorously or to full capacity, He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro, Don't strain your mind too much |
sneak in creep in | enter surreptitiously, He sneaked in under cover of darkness, In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in |
puree strain | rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender, puree the vegetables for the baby |
filter filtrate strain separate out filter out | remove by passing through a filter, filter out the impurities |
sift sieve strain | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements, sift the flour |
strain tense | become stretched or tense or taut, the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed, the rope strained when the weight was attached |
try strain stress | test the limits of, You are trying my patience! |
crawl creep | move slowly, in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground, The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed |
sneak mouse creep pussyfoot | to go stealthily or furtively, ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house |
creep up sneak up | advance stealthily or unnoticed, Age creeps up on you |
creep | grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface), ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings |
fawn crawl creep cringe cower grovel | show submission or fear |