creeping Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
    crawl; creep; crawling.
    • a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
    • the traffic moved at a creep
  2. verb move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
    crawl; creep.
    • The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
  3. verb to go stealthily or furtively
    pussyfoot; mouse; sneak; creep.
    • ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house
  4. verb grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
    creep.
    • ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings
  5. verb show submission or fear
    fawn; crawl; grovel; cower; cringe; creep.

WordNet

Creep"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.
  2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
    Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper.

Webster 1913