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Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
David Niven

Meaning of "creeping" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CREEPING

creeping  [ˈkriːpɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CREEPING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Creeping is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CREEPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of creeping in the English dictionary

The definition of creeping in the dictionary is having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals. Other definition of creeping is happening slowly and stealthily, without being noticed.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CREEPING


beekeeping
ˈbiːˌkiːpɪŋ
gamekeeping
ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpɪŋ
gatekeeping
ˈɡeɪtˌkiːpɪŋ
goalkeeping
ˈɡəʊlˌkiːpɪŋ
heaping
ˈhiːpɪŋ
housekeeping
ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ
keeping
ˈkiːpɪŋ
mine-sweeping
ˈmaɪnˌswiːpɪŋ
minesweeping
ˈmaɪnˌswiːpɪŋ
mineworker
ˈmaɪnˌswiːpɪŋ
peacekeeping
ˈpiːsˌkiːpɪŋ
reaping
ˈriːpɪŋ
record-keeping
ˈrɛkɔːdˌkiːpɪŋ
safekeeping
ˈseɪfˈkiːpɪŋ
sleeping
ˈsliːpɪŋ
storekeeping
ˈstɔːˌkiːpɪŋ
sweeping
ˈswiːpɪŋ
timekeeping
ˈtaɪmˌkiːpɪŋ
unsleeping
ʌnˈsliːpɪŋ
weeping
ˈwiːpɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CREEPING

creep
creep-feeding
creep-grazing
creepage
creeper
creepie
creepier
creepiest
creepily
creepiness
creeping bent grass
creeping Charlie
creeping Jennie
creeping Jesus
creeping myrtle
creeping paralysis
creeping phlox
creeping thistle
creepingly
creepmouse

WORDS THAT END LIKE CREEPING

book-keeping
camping
double-entry book-keeping
dropping
helping
hopping
landscaping
mapping
overlapping
ping
propping
shipping
shopping
single entry book-keeping
stepping
stopping
stripping
typing
wrapping
yelping

Synonyms and antonyms of creeping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CREEPING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «creeping» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of creeping

Translation of «creeping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CREEPING

Find out the translation of creeping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of creeping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «creeping» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

爬行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rastrero
570 millions of speakers

English

creeping
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزاحف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ползучий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rastejando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লতানে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rampant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merangkak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schleichend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

徐々に進行する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

들어온다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Creeping
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

leo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊடுருவி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सततचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sürünen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

strisciante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pełzanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повзучий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

târâtor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υφέρπουσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diere
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krypande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snikende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of creeping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CREEPING»

The term «creeping» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.423 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CREEPING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «creeping» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «creeping» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about creeping

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10 QUOTES WITH «CREEPING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word creeping.
1
A. C. Benson
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
2
James Buchan
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
3
Paul Di Filippo
You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.
4
Vincent Gallo
I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. creeping around. creeping here and creeping there. creeping everywhere.
5
Romola Garai
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
6
Allan Hamilton
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
7
Richard Jefferies
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.
8
Lillie Langtry
I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
9
Christy Mathewson
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
10
David Niven
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREEPING»

Discover the use of creeping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to creeping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960
Creeping Conformity, the first history of suburbanization in Canada, provides a geographical perspective - both physical and social - on Canada's suburban past.
Richard Harris, 2004
2
Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner and beloved author Neal Shusterman walks on the dark side with this classic collection of masterfully creepy stories so horrifying, you may have to read them twice to remind yourself they’re not real.
Neal Shusterman, 2007
3
The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Mercatoria
This work saves practitioners time and money by providing an easily accessed list of relevant rules and principles, thereby reducing the comparative law research needed to master the lex mercatoria.
Klaus Peter Berger, 2010
4
Here's the Situation: A Guide to Creeping on Chicks, ...
Be honest with yourself, bro. This book here will take your game to a level thought unattainable, given your physical limitations (because we can't all look like Rambo, pretty much, with our shirt off).
Mike Sorrentino, Chris Millis, 2010
5
Black Cat Creeping: A Lucky Cat Story
On Halloween night, a lonely black cat follows a parade of dressed up children to a Halloween party and finds the best treat of all.
Teddy Slater, 2005
6
Creeping Bentgrass Management, Second Edition
What’s New in This Edition Three new chapters, covering the nature of fungicides, abiotic maladies, and selected invertebrate pests An expanded section on disease—double the length of the first edition Updated chapters that reflect the ...
Peter H. Dernoeden, 2012
7
Under the Bed Creeping: A Psychoanalytic Approach to ...
By linking a particular stage to each of the aforementioned texts, I highlight various ways that gothic elements, which often build upon conflict and trauma for setting and character development, are crucial in helping both child and adult ...
Michael Robert Howarth, 2007
8
Creeping Shadows
A young Dutch boy grows up in WW2 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The tragedy of war and the work of the Resistance. The unexpected tragic loss of his father. Emigration to Australia with his mother and stepfather.
Klaas Kalma, 2011
9
The Creeping Bookends
When a young boy is accidentally locked in the library after closing time he witnesses two decorative bookends transform into ravenous, book-devouring lizards that rapidly multiply and threaten to eat up everything in the library, including ...
Michael Dahl, 2008
10
Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development ...
This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples.
Michael Glantz, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CREEPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term creeping is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Creeping authoritarianism: Man arrested for having pet deer
Creeping authoritarianism: Man arrested for having pet deer. By Newsmachete. A man was arrested yesterday. His crime? Keeping deer as ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
2
Beware of discriminatory bias creeping into your hiring practices
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo fileIn this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, Samantha Elauf stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington. «Financial Post, Jul 15»
3
Skin-burning plant creeping closer to your backyard
Warnings about giant hogweed, an invasive plant species which are being widely circulated on social media, have not yet had confirmed ... «SooToday.com, Jul 15»
4
Hungarys inflation creeping higher
Inflation continues to creep higher in Hungary, rising slightly to 0.6% y/y in June from 0.5% in May. Normalization of food and energy price ... «EconoTimes, Jul 15»
5
The Freedom Charter, a Guiding Light, is Being Undermined by a …
It is an aspirational and idealistic vision, but is increasingly undermined by a creeping deficit in institutional trust and a public being serviced by ... «Books LIVE, Jul 15»
6
101 applications in June: Asylum application numbers creeping up
The number of asylum applications submitted in Luxembourg continues to creep up though figures have not yet reached pre-2013 crisis levels. «Luxemburger Wort - English Edition, Jul 15»
7
A closer look at a creeping, crawling, curious animal
Interestingly, entoproct sexual reproduction can result in two distinct types of larvae; a swimming type and a rarer 'creeping' type that crawls ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
8
Pessimism creeping into Kerry comments about Iran deal
As the self-imposed Tuesday deadline for talks on the Iranian nuclear program approaches – a deadline that may slip again – remarks by U.S. ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
9
Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom pregnant, divorce for creeping with …
(ThyBlackMan.com) Reality star Khloe Kardashian is rumored to be dating NBA star James Harden after the two were recently spotted getting ... «ThyBlackMan, Jul 15»
10
Watchwords: English is creeping into the Italian language
“Be cool and join the navy.” It sounds like a fair recruitment slogan, if you're aiming to reach young people who might otherwise have no interest ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»

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