About The Word Creeping
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Creeping
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What's The Definition Of Creeping?
[n] a slow creeping 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"
[adj] moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground; "a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles"; "a creeping tractor" Synonyms | Synonyms for Creeping: crawl | crawling | crawling | creep | moving Related Terms | Find terms related to Creeping: all fours | ambling | amphibian | anguine | atiptoe | atmospherics | batrachian | blaring | blasting | blind spot | cautious | cautiousness | circumspect | circumspection | claudicant | colubriform | crawl | crawling | creep | creeping like snail | crocodilian | deliberate | deliberateness | deliberation | drawl | drift | easy | fade-out | fading | faltering | flagging | foot-dragging | froggy | gentle | gradual | gumshoeing | halting | hobbled | hobbling | honeycombed | idle | idleness | indolence | indolent | inertia | inertness | interference | languid | languor | languorous | laziness | lazy | leisureliness | leisurely | lentitude | lentor | limping | lizardlike | lumbering | moderate | nightwalking | noise | on all fours | on tippytoe | on tiptoe | ophidian | padding | permeated | pokiness | poking | poky | prowling | pussyfooting | reception | relaxed | reluctance | reluctant | repent | reptant | reptatorial | reptile | reptilelike | reptilian | reptiliform | reptiloid | saturated | sauntering | saurian | scrabble | scramble | serpentiform | serpentile | serpentine | serpentlike | serpentoid | shot through | shuffling | sidling | slack | slackness | slinking | slithering | sloth | slothful | slow | slow as death | slow as molasses | slow as slow | slow-crawling | slow-foot | slow-going | slow-legged | slow-moving | slowness | slow-paced | slow-poky | slow-running | slow-sailing | slow-stepped | sluggardy | sluggish | sluggishness | snaillike | snail-paced | snakelike | snaking | snaky | sneaking | staggering | static | stealing | strolling | swarming | teeming | tentative | tentativeness | tippytoe | tiptoe | tiptoeing | toadish | toddling | tortoiselike | tottering | trudging | turtlelike | unhurried | viperiform | viperish | viperlike | viperoid | viperous | vipery | waddling | worming See Also | locomotion | travel Creeping In Webster's Dictionary \Creep"ing\, a.
1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. ``Every creeping
thing.'' --Gen. vi. 20.
2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall,
etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
Casements lined with creeping herbs. --Cowper.
{Ceeping crowfoot} (Bot.), a plant, the {Ranunculus repens}.
{Creeping snowberry}, an American plant ({Chiogenes
hispidula}) with white berries and very small round leaves
having the flavor of wintergreen.
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