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Synonyms and Antonyms of crabbing
- their two-year-old whined and crabbed for the whole car trip
beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, croaking, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, maundering [chiefly British], moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging (or whingeing) [British], whining, yammering, yawping (or yauping), yowling
- crabbed the blossoming romance by becoming moody and demanding
deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakening
eroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)
botching, gumming (up), queering
disabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturing
annihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling (or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking
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