Search Result:creeping




Overview of noun creeping

The noun creeping has 1 sense


  • crawl, crawling, creep, creeping -- (a slow 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")


Overview of verb creep

The verb creep has 4 senses


  • crawl, creep -- (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")

  • sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot -- (to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house")

  • creep -- (grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings")

  • fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel -- (show submission or fear)