[
  {
    "word": "creep",
    "phonetic": "/k\u0279i\u02d0p/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/k\u0279i\u02d0p/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/creep-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1762651",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.",
            "synonyms": [
              "crawl"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To slip, or to become slightly displaced.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "crawl"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creep"
    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "creep",
    "phonetic": "/k\u0279i\u02d0p/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/k\u0279i\u02d0p/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/creep-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1762651",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "christmas creep"
          },
          {
            "definition": "In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.",
            "synonyms": [
              "weirdo"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Stop following me, you creep!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "weirdo"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creep"
    ]
  }
]