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crawling

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verb

present participle of crawl
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as in creeping
to move slowly with the body close to the ground the time we had to crawl through a narrow passageway from one cave to another

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as in bursting
to be copiously supplied something must be up, as city hall is crawling with reporters

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“Crawling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawling. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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