Creeping Synonyms & Definitions

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• CreepingDefinition & Meaning in English

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

• CreepDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
2. (n.) The act or process of creeping.
3. (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
4. (v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
5. (v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
6. (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
7. (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
8. (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or ones self; as, age creeps upon us.
9. (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
10. (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
11. (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

• CreepinglyDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (adv.) by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.

• Creeping CharlieDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () The stonecrop (Sedum acre).