creeping
noun
- manner of motion
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
- The act of something that creeps.
“It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- present participle and gerund of creep
“Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.”