creeping
verbosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
- //ˈkɹiːpɪŋ//
The act of something that creeps.
verbo
- 1
Também uma forma de creeppresent 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.
Etimologia
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.
substantivo
- 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 […]
Etimologia
From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
Formas
- plural
- creepings
creeping · The act of something that creeps.
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