creeping

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 […]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of creep form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — 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.

词形变化

creepings plural

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
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