adjective. Developing gradually over a period of time.

adjective. Having stems that creep along the ground and root at intervals.

noun. Stalking or still-hunting, as for moose or deer.

noun. Motion of the rails of a railroad in the direction of traffic, due to a number of causes.

noun. The slip of a belt or rope which is driving one pulley from another: due to working or elasticity in the belt or rope.

noun. In electricity, the slow drifting or moving of an instrument or meter at no load, due to inaccurate adjustment or to a slow change of the suspension.

noun. In geology, same as creep, 5.

noun. In submarine work, the act of dragging with creepers or grapnels to recover a lost object.

adjective. Crawling, or moving close to the ground.

adjective. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

adjective. a plant, the Ranunculus repens.

adjective. an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

verb. Present participle of creep.

noun. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

"“The flooding in Africa just now is the worst anyone can remember,” Sir John said, expressing frustration at how little media attention in the west was being devoted to what he terms creeping climatic catastrophe."

locomotion  travel  

beeping  bleeping  heaping  keeping  leaping  

all fours  ambling  amphibian  anguine  atiptoe  

creep