0 to move slowly, quietly, and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed: --
1 someone who tries to make someone more important like them by being very polite and helpful in a way that is not sincere: --
2 the gradual growth or increase of something in a way that was not expected or wanted: --
3 to cause someone to have uncomfortable feelings of nervousness or fear: --
Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.
4 to move quietly and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed: --
We were creeping along in rush-hour traffic.
The academic operation may be successful, but the patients may be dying, especially in these times of creeping illiteracy.
Similar analyses to those described above still apply but some interesting extra features emerge, particularly with respect to the creeping field.
The first was creeping desiccation as reflected in the shrinkage of the wetlands.
As the deer resumes its activity, the hunter creeps toward the deer again.
As provincial firms grew in scale and influence, advertisements for their products crept into the pages of the national press and specialist periodicals.
A similar blandness creeps into his theoretical statements because of his desire not to overgeneralise or be deterministic.
A corner within the illuminated region also leads to an expansion fan and hence to creeping fields.
Our results that creeping cercariae sensitively and specifically orientate along increasing arginine gradients suggested a role of arginine as an intraspecific pheromone.
