Synonyms of the word

pussyfoot

• v. (intransitive) To move silently, stealthily, or furtively.
• v. (intransitive) To act timidly or cautiously.
• v. (intransitive) To use euphemistic language or circumlocution.

creep

• v. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
• v. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate…
• v. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
• v. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
• v. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
• v. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
• n. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
• n. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
• n. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something.
• n. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered…
• n. (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those…
• n. (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under…
• n. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
• n. (informal, pejorative) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
• n. (informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker…
• n. (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals…

mouse

• n. Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
• n. (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
• n. A quiet or shy person.
• n. (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface…
• n. (boxing) Hematoma.
• n. (nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the…
• n. (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
• n. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
• n. (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending…
• v. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used…
• v. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
• v. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

sneak

• n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
• n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
• n. An informer; a tell-tale.
• n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
• n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
• v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
• v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
• v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
• v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
• adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
• adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.