Crawling
/ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The motion of something that crawls.
"Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way."
- 2 a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of crawl form-of, gerund, participle, present
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"I felt something crawling on my back."