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crawling

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ//
  • //ˈkɹɑlɪŋ//
  • //ˈkɹaːlɪn//

The motion of something that crawls.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of crawlpresent participle and gerund of crawl

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.

Forms

plural
crawlings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).