Synonyms for creeping
creep·ing

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1. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingnoun

   a slow 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"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, creep, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook

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1. • Locomotion

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1. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crawling

2. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fawning, sycophantic

3. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) growing on the ground or on supports

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crawling, reptile, reptant, fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic

2. creepingnoun

   Synonyms:
   reptation, formication

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1. List of paraphrases for "creeping":

   crawling

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How to use creeping in a sentence?

1. Angela Rasmussen:

   The situation that we're seeing on the ground, and I get this from talking to a number of my colleagues who actually do the genomic surveillance, is BA.2 is kind of creeping up in terms of numbers, but it's not the meteoric rise that we saw with BA.1.

2. Yves Guillemot:

   We don't want them sitting on the board, because they're implementing a creeping control strategy to take over the company.

3. Islam Karimov:

   Various elements among the representatives of Islamic State are already slipping into Afghanistan from Iraq and Syria. All this requires the adoption of appropriate preventative measures, the creeping expansion of militant extremism and religious radicalism, not only on the territory of the governments of Central Asia but also abroad, is most seriously concerning.

4. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the worlds biggest corporations ? Yes, they can.

5. Extinction Rebellion:

   Despite our government's denial, this is a national disaster creeping ever closer to the capital.