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CREEPING
- Move slowly and carefully, esp. in order to avoid being heard or noticed
- (of a thing) Move very slowly at an inexorably steady pace
- (of a plant) Grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches
- (of a plastic solid) Undergo gradual deformation under stress
- CREEP, to crawl (to move with the body on or near the ground) [v]
- (of an unwanted and negative characteristic or fact) Occur or develop gradually and almost imperceptibly
- Increase slowly but steadily in number or amount