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creeping

cree·ping

UK/ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/ US/ˈkripɪŋ/ fairly common

noun

1.

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”
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Origin

From Middle English crepynge, crepinde, crepende, crepande, from Old English crēopende, from Proto-Germanic *kreupandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to creep, crawl”), equivalent to creep + -ing.

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