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Meaning of 'creeping' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Creeping [ a.]
- Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
- Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
2 . Creeping [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Creep

Meaning of 'creeping' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . creeping [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Example in sentence:
  • a crawl was all that the injured man could manage;
  • the traffic moved at a creep

Nearby Words:

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