The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
The act of fastening a buckle.
A folding into hills and valleys.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
Smoked herring.
Wavy; curly, as hair.
An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.