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creeping::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crawl, crawling, creep |
| Type of | locomotion, travel |
| Derivation | creep |
Examples of creeping
creeping
A good example of how aid is creeping into our lives in subtler ways is Unitaid.
From the time.com
There has already been a process of what might be called creeping Noctonisation.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Creeping disengagement, eroding morale and questions about management's loyalty.
From the washingtonpost.com
Creeping uncertainty of this sort would inevitably slow and distort the economy.
From the theatlantic.com
In parks across the Washington region, neighbors keep creeping into the commons.
From the washingtonpost.com
Hatred is an apparently natural human reaction to these creeping, creepy vermin.
From the time.com
After Tiananmen, they began creeping back up again until recent events, he said.
From the jsonline.com
Comedy's been No 1 for the past 10 years, but visual arts are creeping up there.
From the couriermail.com.au
But the chaos creeping towards the heart of the city makes more of them nervous.
From the economist.com
- Crawl: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- A slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- Sneak: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
- The Committee for the Re-Election of the President, abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration. ...
- The Creeping Terror (also known as The Crawling Monster and Dangerous Charter) is a 1964 horror/sci-fi film, in which a slug-like monster terrorizes an American town after escaping from a crashed spaceship. ...
- Creep, (Krip - pijin) (Gara = babatana), refers to a customary practice in Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands whereby males may seek to find a wife.
