CREEPING

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Traducere în limba română

creeping I. adjectiv

1. (despre plante) târâtor, agăţător, căţărător; repent.

2. care se târăşte.

3. (fig.) care se insinuează, care se strecoară, linguşitor, gudurător; supus, plecat, umil.

4. care te furnică / mănâncă;

(fig.) creeping sensation fiori.

creeping II. substantiv

1. faptul de a se târî.

2. (fig.) linguşire, făţărnicie, insinuare; atitudine umilă.

3. (electr.) scurgeri de curent pe suprafaţa unui izolator.

4. (electr.) lunecare, fugă (a electrolitului).

5. (ferov.) fugă a şinelor (deplasare a şinelor în lungul căii).

6. (mine) aşezare a solului, afundare a terenului deasupra unei exploatări miniere.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Without a story—really?” inquired Dora, creeping closer to me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Oh, husband! I am so glad, yet so sorry!” creeping closer to me, and folding me in both her arms.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

When I walked about, exalted with my secret, and full of my own interest, and felt the dignity of loving Dora, and of being beloved, so much, that if I had walked the air, I could not have been more above the people not so situated, who were creeping on the earth!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Always creeping along the ground to some small end or other, he will always magnify every object in the way; and consequently will hate and suspect everybody that comes, in the most innocent manner, between him and it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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