creeping

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/ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/ English

Definitions

verb

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.

noun

The act of something that creeps.

Related words

Synonyms

crawl crawling moving sneaking displacement spreading growing increasing scroll trailing scrolling herpetic brown looming slinking skulking

Associated

snowberry barrage rhizome buttercup prostrate rooting phlox fescue vole lanceolate clumps aloe

Rhymes

weeping sweeping seeping peeping keeping sleeping bleeping bookkeeping safekeeping peacekeeping

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