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Creeping

Creeping Definition And Meaning
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.

Creeping Definition And Meaning

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"

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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