noun
Meaning 1
The act of something that creeps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
creeping
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/
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rhymes with -iːpɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: K R IY1 P IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
present participle and gerund of creep
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
- the traffic moved at a creep
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: locomotion, travel
History
Etymology
From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
From Middle English crepynge, crepinde, crepende, crepande, from Old English crēopende, from Proto-Germanic *kreupandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to creep, crawl”), equivalent to creep + -ing.