crawling
verbnouncommon in dialogue
- United States//ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ//
- //ˈkɹɑlɪŋ//
- //ˈkɹaːlɪn//
The motion of something that crawls.
verb
- 1
Also a form of crawlpresent participle and gerund of crawl
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.
Forms
- plural
- crawlings
Crawford · An English and Scottish habitational surname from Old English…crawl · To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface,…Crawley · A place in England: A large town and borough in West Sussex.
crawling · The motion of something that crawls.
crazed · Maddened; driven insane.craziness · The state of being crazy; madness; derangementcrazy · Of unsound mind; insane; demented.