Definition of Creeping

Creeping

of Creep

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.

Related Definitions:

Along, And, By, Clinging, Close, Crawling, Creep, Ground, Growing, Moving, Of, Or, The, To, Wall

Creeping Quotations

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
Lillie Langtry

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.
Francis Parkman

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Bishop Robert South

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson

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

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.
Christy Mathewson

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
John Fischer

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Creeping Translations

creeping in French is trainant
creeping in German is kriechend, schleichend, kriechend

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