Crawling

//ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of crawl form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms
crawlabjectaccumbentacrawlalivealive with

Example

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"I felt something crawling on my back."

Related phrases

lob-crawlingnight crawling

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