Acrawl
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Crawling. not-comparable
"1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849, […] an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me."
- 2 Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling). not-comparable
"Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them."
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More examples"1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849, […] an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me."
Etymology
From a- + crawl.
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