Crossword clues for creeping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. Crept (kr[e^]pt) ( Crope (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.]
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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.
Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
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To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school.
--Shak.Like a guilty thing, I creep.
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To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.
--Locke.Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women.
--2. Tim. iii. 6. 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.
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To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
To come as humbly as they used to creep.
--Shak. 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. ``Creeping vines.''
--Dryden.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.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
Creeping \Creep"ing\, a.
Crawling, or moving close to the ground. ``Every creeping thing.''
--Gen. vi. 20.-
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something that creeps. vb. (present participle of creep English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "creeping".
He stood on the aftercastle, his eyes darting about as he watched the fluttering ribbons on the rigging which showed the direction of the wind relative to the ship, the set of the sail, the waves coming up behind the sternpost, and the dark, menacing line of the shore, which seemed to be creeping closer.
With the anchorman clinging and leaning to the rope like a groom, the boat bucked like an angry horse, but they moved forward, creeping past the rough stone walls toward a small and distant patch of light.
But the tumult on the other campuses and the antiauthoritarian tenor of the times could be measured by the length of the sideburns creeping down the faces of Carolina men.
It looked like a bordello for wealthy Mexicans, all white stucco and red tile, with fountains in the courtyard and bougainvillaea creeping along its flanks.
The cold stare was becoming a glare as Cardiff stalked forward, his free hand creeping slowly toward his coat pocket.
It is commonly called the creeping snowberry, but I like better its official title of chiogenes,--the snow-born.
Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.
Shadrach moved without pause past the line of sight of the cactacae talking within, with the constructs creeping beside him hidden from the light, then on past the edge of the doorway into the darkness of the corridor beyond.
Europe has been very much greater than in former times, the consequence of which is that a change is creeping over the place, from the energy and enterprize of the new comers.
For I loved the Moon, and now I knew that the creeping moss of Aristarchus and Eratosthenes was not the only life she had brought forth in her youth.
Amherst intellectuals begging you to save them from creeping faggotry by permitting them to stick their carrots in your sticky little slit?
Curtis had found her at sunset, looking like a scarecrow with only her lower masts standing and a few scraps of canvas aboard, far away right under the land, creeping in with her tattered forecourse alone.
She scarcely could tell which were freshest at times, but day soon came creeping over the Limberlost and peeped at her.
She kept her eyes on the screen: another flash of the Graycoats, creeping down an alley.
As Gypper stared, he saw the ladder creeping upward, drawn by hands above the parapet.