creeping

§EtymologyEdit

creep +‎ -ing

§PronunciationEdit

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  Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ

§VerbEdit

creeping

1. Present participle of creep.

§NounEdit

creeping (plural creepings)

1. The act of something that creeps.
   • 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons

     It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]