SNAILED Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

snailed

verb

past tense of snail

as in dragged

to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

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The Euphemism Problem In April 2017, a passenger was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago.

— Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
The ship dragged its anchor along the seabed for about 80 miles, damaging two telecommunications cables, according to a court statement.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of dragged

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This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of crawled

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For months now, so much vitriol crept into our TVs, interrupting the Bears or your favorite college football team with a special message from a super PAC or a partisan looking to score points by smearing their opponents.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
LePage’s decision to spend more time in Florida after leaving the governor’s mansion has also crept into the consideration of at least some voters following a drumbeat of attacks by Dunlap.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of crept

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On the day of disembarkation, shuttle buses pulled up alongside the Odyssey and passengers shuffled out.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
That said, moving off Nikola’s money certainly could/should be a Heat consideration at some point, with Jovic shuffled out of the rotation Wednesday night against the Clippers.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of shuffled

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Buzelis had just fumbled his sixth turnover against the San Antonio Spurs, batting helplessly at the ball as it was poked from his grasp.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026
Kid Rock harvested an incredible elk, and poked some fun at the state of politics in America in the process.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

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