To move with the body near or touching the ground, as a reptile or an insect, a cat stealthily approaching its prey, or an infant on hands and knees.In botany: To grow prostrate along the ground or other surface.To grow below the surface, as rooting shoots. A creeping plant usually fastens itself by roots to the surface upon which it grows.To move along, or from place to place, slowly, feebly, or timorously; move imperceptibly, as time.To move secretly; move so as to escape detection or evade suspicion; enter unobserved.To move or behave with extreme servility or humility; move as if affected with a sense of humiliation or terror.To have a sensation as of worms or insects creeping on the skin: as, the sight made my flesh creep.To move longitudinally: said of the rails of a railroad.Synonyms Crawl, Creep. See crawl.n. The act of creeping.n. In coal-mining, the apparent rising of the floor, or under-clay, of the mine between the pillars, or where the roof is not fully supported, caused by the pressure of the superincumbent strata.n. plural A sensation as of something crawling over one; a sensation as of shivering. See creep, v. i., 6. Also called creepers.In chem., to rise above the surface of the liquid upon the walls of the containing-vessel, like salt crystals in an evaporating-dish.n. Same as creeper, 6 .n. In geology, the extremely slow downward movement of disintegrated rock on hillsides. Ground-water, frost, and changes of temperature are the chief factors in such movement.