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creeping
Part of speech: AdjectiveHaving a tendency to creep or the habit of creeping.
Usage examples "creeping":- Not many minutes probably, yet they had not seemed few, and they had given her so much to think of, not only while creeping home, but while waiting afterwards at the inn, that she was still busy with them when, late in the afternoon, Milly reappeared. - "The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2", Henry James.
- A gentle change was creeping over Hynds House, perhaps because of the delightful old ladies who had begun to come there. - "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.
- Nature is creeping up. - "Whistler Stories", Don C. Seitz.