Creeping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CREEPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• CREEP, to advance stealthily
• move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed
• (of a thing) move very slowly and inexorably
• (of a plant) grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches
• (of a plastic solid) undergo gradual deformation under stress.
• (of a negative characteristic or fact) occur or develop gradually and almost imperceptibly
• increase slowly but steadily in number or amount
NOUN:
• a detestable person
• a person who behaves obsequiously in the hope of advancement.
• slow steady movement, especially when imperceptible
• the tendency of a car with automatic transmission to move when in gear without the accelerator being pressed
• the gradual downward movement of disintegrated rock or soil due to gravity
• the gradual deformation of a plastic solid under stress
• gradual bulging of the floor of a mine owing to pressure on the pillars
• an opening in a hedge or wall for an animal to pass through
• a feeding enclosure for young animals, with a long, narrow entrance
• solid food given to young farm animals in order to wean them
• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
ADJECTIVE:
• Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
• Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to crawl
• present participle of creep

Words related to CREEPING

creep9 creeped12 creepingly18 creeps10 crept9

Words that contain CREEPING

creepingly18

How to use CREEPING in a sentence

• Over that life, too, the shadows of evening were creeping.
• But he had trained himself long ago to do with a very moderate portion of sleep, and he was up and dressed while the dawn was still slowly creeping along the edges of the hills.
• The water was all round the house now, and must have been creeping in under the edge of the door, only from the back of the house they could not see this.
• But we were not much afraid when it was light enough, so that imagination could not picture them creeping stealthily behind us.
• Against the systematic infidelity which was more and more creeping over the eighteenth century, the Christian faith alone, with all its forces, could fight and triumph.
• There was a door at each end, but the night was still and dark and there was little air beyond the vague chill of a creeping sea-mist.
• And she at his sight played with a ball and while thus employed, looked like a creeping plant broken in two.
• She found a spot, and brought down to it earth, and a creeping plant, which grew and decomposed into worms, and, lo! the worms turned into men and women.
• Chloe sat for a long time staring into the flames of the tiny fire before creeping between her damp blankets.
• And while she looked, the shadow of Wut-a-qut-o was creeping over the river, and now ready to take off the warm browns of the rocky point.
• The prospect was like a bright-colored map over which a black liquid has been spilled, here in drops, there in creeping streams.
• It was night then, when I awoke to feel That deadly chill, and see by ghostly gleams Of moonlight, creeping through the grated door, The coffins of my fathers all about.
• He must find it quickly for that dreadful feeling was creeping over him and he knew in another moment he would fall.
• Creeping along, then, as much under cover as possible, we endeavoured to get within shot of the animals.
• Then her eyes kindled, and the colour came creeping back into her pale cheeks.
• At length Hare, tired of looking upward at the creeping white wagons, closed his eyes.
• The little laughing, creeping days go by us, then the awkward ones that bring us the first footsteps, then childhood comes, and youth, and then maturity.
• But we are beginning to reverse this tendency, and now many a wilderness is being reclaimed, arid plains are green with corn, and the forests are creeping back upon the hillsides.
• The shadow of that same hand was already creeping up from the east.
• A few minutes later, while he was still on the lookout, another one came creeping stealthily by, making futile efforts to stifle the noise of his creaking boots.
• Only the moon and the pale stars had eyes to see these creeping figures.
• He carries the world in little, and is a creeping black body of the best.

Similar words containing CREEP without suffix ing

creep9 creeps10 creepy13 creeped12 creeper11 creepie11 creepage13 creepers12 creepier12 creepies12 creepily15 creepages14 creepered14 creepiest13 creepmice17 eurocreep13 creepiness14 creepingly18 creepmouse16 eurocreeps14 creepmouses17 creepinesses16 honeycreeper22 honeycreepers23

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