crawling
Meaning of crawling
verb, gerund or present participle
- move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.
they crawled from under the table
- behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favour.
a reporter's job can involve crawling to objectionable people
- be covered or crowded with (insects or people), to an extent that is objectionable.
the floor was dirty and crawling with bugs
- (of a program) systematically visit (a number of web pages) in order to create an index of data.
its automated software robots crawl websites, grabbing copies of pages to index
Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle .
Information about crawling
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of crawling is: crawlings.
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Hyphenation of crawling
crawl-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- crawling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crawling synonyms
Meaning crawl:
Meaning move along slowly and carefully:
Meaning (of time) pass slowly and tediously:
Meaning (typically of a plant) grow or hang over the edge of something or along the ground:
Meaning slide or slip unsteadily on a loose or slippery surface:
Meaning move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner:
Meaning wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort:
Meaning twist and turn with quick writhing movements:
Meaning make twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body:
Meaning scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something:
Meaning move or go in a furtive or stealthy way:
Meaning prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening:
Meaning coax (someone) with kind words or flattery:
Words that rhyme with crawling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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