Crossword-Solution: CREEPING 8 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Creeping p. pr. & vb. n. of Creep
Creeping a. Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
Creeping a. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall,
etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

We have 29 clues for the answer “CREEPING”

Clue Answers
Moving on hands and knees 1 answer
Like ground ivy 1 answer
Advancing slowly. 1 answer
Kind of juniper 2 answers
reptant 2 answers
AND KNEES HANDS DECK 10 answers
ask forgiveness 10 answers
be remorseful 11 answers
feel sorrow 13 answers
feel remorse 14 answers
Repent 15 answers
Contrition 19 answers
be penitent 20 answers
be sorry 22 answers
Atone 26 answers
apologise 30 answers
Piecemeal 35 answers
Pending 36 answers
Edging 41 answers
"Pity!" 46 answers
Grieve 49 answers
progressive 54 answers
Ongoing 59 answers
spreading 61 answers
Lament 63 answers
Compunction 63 answers
Crawling 65 answers
Coming 66 answers
despair 71 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMACZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CREEPING (5)

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The Sixt, and of Creation last arose With Eevning Harps and Mattin, when God said, Let th’ Earth bring forth Fowle living in her kinde, Cattel and Creeping things, and Beast of the Earth, Each in their kinde.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation, Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia’s chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The new inhabitant—who came himself from a foreign land, or whose father or grandfather came—has little claim to be called a Salemite; he has no conception of the oyster-like tenacity with which an old settler, over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been embedded.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with CREEPING (3)

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care. I asked myself what I beli…
Lance Armstrong It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...""You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?""No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.""Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."…
Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.
Christopher Moore The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WP, WSJ.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1967–2015).