creeping | ||
1. | [ adjective ] moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground | |
Synonyms: | crawling | |
Examples: | "a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles" "a creeping tractor" |
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Related terms: | moving | |
2. | [ noun ] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body) | |
Synonyms: | crawling creep crawl | |
Examples: | "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage" "the traffic moved at a creep" |
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Related terms: | locomotion crawl | |
Similar spelling: |
creep_in craving Cribbin |