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crooling

crooling is the present participle and gerund of crool.

Meaning of crool

Verb

crool (third-person singular simple present crools, present participle crooling, simple past and past participle crooled)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.
    • I […] lay down to rest / Upon a grassy hillock, o'er which bowed / A bush in which some late bird kept her nest. / And, as she crooled, I slept.1873, Thomas Cooper, The Paradise of Martyrs

Questions about crooling

What is crooling the present participle and gerund of?
Crooling is the present participle and gerund of crool.

Words near crooling in the dictionary

  1. Crookwell
  2. crool
  3. crooled
  4. crooler
  5. croolest
  6. crooling
  7. crools
  8. Croom
  9. Croome
  10. Crooms
  11. croon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crooling (page history and authors); crool (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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