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Creeping Moderate

Creeping has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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"

2

The act of something that creeps.

"The creeping shadow lengthened across the floor as the sun began to set behind the hills."

Verb
1

present participle of creep

"The children were creeping quietly across the lawn so they wouldn't wake up their sleeping neighbors."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
locomotion
Rhyming Words
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