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show submission or fear

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example); "ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings"

show submission or fear

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

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.

To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

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.

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

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.

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.

The act or process of creeping.

A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

To move slowly along the ground, as a worm or reptile; crawl; grow along the ground, as a plant; move secretly or stealthily.

The act of crawling; the sensation of being covered with crawling things; often colloquially in plural.

Crept.

To move on the belly, like a snake: to move slowly: to grow along the ground or on supports, as a vine: to fawn:-pr.p. creeping: pa.t. and pa.p. crept.

To move close to the ground, or slowly; move as an insect; grow along the ground, as a vine.

To show servility; cringe.

To move on the belly, as a worm; to crawl; to grow along, as a creeping plant; to move slowly and insensibly; to move secretly; to behave with servility; to fawn; to have a sensation as of something creeping.

To move forwards on the belly, as an animal without feet; to crawl, as on the hands and knees; to move slowly, feebly, secretly, or insensibly, as time; to grow along, as a plant; to trail.