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[ adjective ] moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground

Synonyms

crawling

Examples

"a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles" "a creeping tractor"

Related terms

moving

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[ noun ] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body)

Synonyms

crawling creep crawl

Examples

"a crawl was all that the injured man could manage" "the traffic moved at a creep"

Related terms

locomotion crawl

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Rhymes with

keeping ripping scraping safekeeping gripping leaping weeping seeping clipping bookkeeping peacekeeping housekeeping tripping dripping sleeping sweeping rapping wrapping roping equipping stripping carping coping piping chipping shipping whipping nipping sipping clapping grouping groping ping popping camping taping typing slipping gaping whipping drooping dropping trapping shaping tramping grasping limping strapping tapping burping topping landscaping kidnaping kidnapping warping shopping napping mapping mopping lapping sopping whopping flopping gasping dumping flapping worshipping stopping stooping sloping snapping gulping whopping chomping jumping stumping helping thumping enveloping developing galloping walloping gossiping overlapping

Phonetic and Homophones

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