Becrawl

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To crawl about; crawl all over. ambitransitive

    ""Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away."

Example

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""Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away."

Etymology

From be- (“about, all over”) + crawl.

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