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- verb Present participle of
crawl .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
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Examples
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Always before Peter had come home lipperty-lipperty-lipperty-lip, but now he was crawling, actually _crawling_!
The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse Harrison Cady 1919
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When the kerb-crawling is banished, what happens to the street workers?
Sex Workers: Once again, what’s best for us? « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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If you're reading this on a "high speed" Amtrak train crawling through New Jersey, our condolences.
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The legions of the lost come crawling from the grave
Archive 2010-05-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Sanford is a creep, without any perspective on how he may be viewed, and, his most recent skin crawling disclosures show a narcistic side.
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The legions of the lost come crawling from the grave
March On! Hal Duncan 2010
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On the instant my flesh was creeping and crawling from the harsh contact.
Chapter 2 2010
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I volunteered for President Obama's campaign, and the experience left my skin crawling; and even to this day when I recall the encounters.
Carter again cites racism as factor in Obama's treatment 2009
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From the beginning of time even when we were still crawling from the sea.
A Nice Day For A Forced Wedding. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Search engines work with text and metadata about that text -- "With this latest innovation in crawling Flash, Google can more easily access the text in Flash, but they still cant process it quite as well as it can HTML text because they arent extracting any meta data about that text"
lampbane commented on the word crawling
"Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real"
March 6, 2007