creeping (root: creep)

• HYPHEN: creep=ing
• COUNT in NET: 8 in 8 verses (in OT : 8 in 8 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

creeping, a. 

•  Crawling, or moving close to the ground.  Gen. vi. 20.  [1913 Webster]
•  Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.  [1913 Webster]

  "Casements lined with creeping herbs."  [1913 Webster]

Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens. -- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

THESAURUS

creeping

all fours, ambling, amphibian, anguine, atiptoe, atmospherics, batrachian, blaring, blasting, blind spot, cautious, cautiousness, circumspect, circumspection, claudicant, colubriform, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping like snail, crocodilian, deliberate, deliberateness, deliberation, drawl, drift, easy, fade-out, fading, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, froggy, gentle, gradual, gumshoeing, halting, hobbled, hobbling, honeycombed, idle, idleness, indolence, indolent, inertia, inertness, interference, languid, languor, languorous, laziness, lazy, leisureliness, leisurely, lentitude, lentor, limping, lizardlike, lumbering, moderate, nightwalking, noise, on all fours, on tippytoe, on tiptoe, ophidian, padding, permeated, pokiness, poking, poky, prowling, pussyfooting, reception, relaxed, reluctance, reluctant, repent, reptant, reptatorial, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, saturated, sauntering, saurian, scrabble, scramble, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, shot through, shuffling, sidling, slack, slackness, slinking, slithering, sloth, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slowness, sluggardy, sluggish, sluggishness, snail-paced, snaillike, snakelike, snaking, snaky, sneaking, staggering, static, stealing, strolling, swarming, teeming, tentative, tentativeness, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, toadish, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, waddling, worming

ROGET THESAURUS

creeping

Slowness

N slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace, slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace.