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Creeping vs Crouching - What's the difference?

creeping | crouching |

As verbs the difference between creeping and crouching

is that creeping is while crouching is .

As nouns the difference between creeping and crouching

is that creeping is the act of something that creeps while crouching is the action of the verb crouch .

As an adjective crouching is

that crouches or crouch.

creeping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that creeps.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
    • 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

    crouching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb crouch .
  • * 1972 , Richard Adams, (Watership Down)
    • so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That crouches or crouch.
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon