Found 3 items, similar to creeping.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: creeping jalar
English → English (WordNet) Definition: creeping creeping n : a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); “a crawl was all that the injured man could manage”; “the traffic moved at a creep” [syn: crawl, crawling, creep]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Creeping Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. Crept (kr[e^]pt) (Crope (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.] 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. [1913 Webster] Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. [1913 Webster] The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us. [1913 Webster] The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii. 6. [1913 Webster] 4. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep. [1913 Webster] 5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. [1913 Webster] To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. “Creeping vines.” --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4. [1913 Webster] 8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. [1913 Webster] Creeping \Creep"ing\, a. 1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. “Every creeping thing.” --Gen. vi. 20. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. --Cowper. [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. [1913 Webster]