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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
creeping en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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.
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) 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.
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
creeping en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
Meanings
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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 […]
1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons:
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