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Synonyms & Antonyms of snail
(Entry 1 of 2)
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
- go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of snail (Entry 2 of 2)
to move slowly
- the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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The first known use of snail was before the 12th century
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