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upcrawling

upcrawling is the present participle and gerund of upcrawl.

Meaning of upcrawl

Verb

upcrawl (third-person singular simple present upcrawls, present participle upcrawling, simple past and past participle upcrawled)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To crawl upward.
    • Behold his venal brain bared to our gaze, / See the base thoughts which worm-like there upcrawl, / Countless and teeming from their burrow's maze; […]1883, William J. Coughlin, Songs of an Idle Hour, page 47

Questions about upcrawling

What is upcrawling the present participle and gerund of?
Upcrawling is the present participle and gerund of upcrawl.

Words near upcrawling in the dictionary

  1. upcountry
  2. upcourt
  3. upcraned
  4. upcrawl
  5. upcrawled
  6. upcrawling
  7. upcrawls
  8. upcreek
  9. upcreep
  10. upcreeping
  11. upcreeps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upcrawling (page history and authors); upcrawl (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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