Creeping

What do we mean by creeping?

Developing gradually over a period of time. adjective

Having stems that creep along the ground and root at intervals. adjective

In submarine work, the act of dragging with creepers or grapnels to recover a lost object. noun

Stalking or still-hunting, as for moose or deer. noun

Motion of the rails of a railroad in the direction of traffic, due to a number of causes. noun

The slip of a belt or rope which is driving one pulley from another: due to working or elasticity in the belt or rope. noun

In electricity, the slow drifting or moving of an instrument or meter at no load, due to inaccurate adjustment or to a slow change of the suspension. noun

In geology, same as creep, 5. noun

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. adjective

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. adjective

A plant, the Ranunculus repens. adjective

An American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen. adjective

Present participle of creep. verb

A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body noun

To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Words that are spelled similarly to creeping:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word creeping:
snowberry, barrage, rhizome, buttercup, prostrate, rooting, phlox, fescue, vole, lanceolate, clumps, aloe, thyme, herbaceous, stems, glabrous, thistle, perennial, ovate, shrapnel, erect, bent, juniper, fibrous, fleshy, flowering, vine, branched, habit, foliage, metallica, shrub, trenches, vines, hairy, trench, evergreen, paralysis, leaves, branching, shrubs, willow, herb, nodes, inflorescence, slender, ascending, fern, flesh, densely, fig, grass, stem, basal, terror, hairs, bombardment, climbing, reddish, invasive, upright, trailing, artillery, dense, divisional, flowers, moss, spreading, advancing, socialism, dwarf, infantry, pine, jenny, roots, shells, fertile, grow, plants, woody, objective, objectives, leaf, flank, thick, plant, tall, root, marsh, rounded, slowly, branches, lifted, linear, smooth, horror, guns, smoke, waves, diameter.

Words that rhyme with creeping:
sweeping, housekeeping, recordkeeping, keeping, safekeeping, bookkeeping, weeping, sleeping, reaping, seeping, peacekeeping, leaping, peeping, steeping, cleping, heaping, beekeeping, bleeping, peiping, beeping, scorekeeping, out or keeping, keep ing, li ping, sleep ing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe creeping:
white, pine, magnetic, women, narrow, doleful.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective creeping:
things, eruption, inflation, socialism, flow, democratization, thing, jurisdiction, assertiveness, realignment, birds, attachment, barrage, thistle, death, stem, warbler, plants, grass, buttercup, bugs, juniper, snails, track, jenny, irrelevance, nettle, coup, expropriation, shallon, counterrevolution, thyme, nounism, plant, motion, stems, gigantism, substitution, not, perennials, paralysis.

Consonant match to creeping:
cropping, craping, crapping.

Words that sound like creeping:
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