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becrawling

becrawling is the present participle and gerund of becrawl.

Meaning of becrawl

Verb

becrawl (third-person singular simple present becrawls, present participle becrawling, simple past and past participle becrawled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To crawl about; crawl all over.
    • "Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away.1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib - Page 84

Questions about becrawling

What is becrawling the present participle and gerund of?
Becrawling is the present participle and gerund of becrawl.

Words near becrawling in the dictionary

  1. Becrafts
  2. becrave
  3. becraving
  4. becrawl
  5. becrawled
  6. becrawling
  7. becrawls
  8. becraze
  9. becrazed
  10. becrazes
  11. becrazing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: becrawling (page history and authors); becrawl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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