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upcrawls

upcrawls is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 upcrawls

What is upcrawls the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upcrawls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upcrawl.

Words near upcrawls in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upcrawls (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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