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creeping¹

  • /ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/

Rhymes with -iːpɪŋ

Where it comes from

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.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of creep Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.

creeping²

  • /ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/

Rhymes with -iːpɪŋ

Where it comes from

From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.

noun creepings

  1. The act of something that creeps. 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 […]

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: crawl, crawling, moving, sneaking, displacement, spreading, growing, increasing, scroll, trailing, scrolling, herpetic, brown, looming, slinking, skulking

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"creeping." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/creeping. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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creeping. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/creeping

Chicago

"creeping." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/creeping.

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@misc{creeping_2026,
  title = {creeping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/creeping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}