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webcrawl

webcrawl verb: to follow hyperlinks in a website by automated means.

Verb

webcrawl (third-person singular simple present webcrawls, present participle webcrawling, simple past and past participle webcrawled)

  1. To follow hyperlinks in a website by automated means.

Noun

webcrawl (plural webcrawls)

  1. The automated following hyperlinks in a website.

Forms of webcrawl

Verb
third-person singular presentwebcrawls
present participlewebcrawling
past participlewebcrawled
pastwebcrawled
Noun
pluralwebcrawls

Questions about webcrawl

What does webcrawl mean?
Webcrawl means to follow hyperlinks in a website by automated means.
What part of speech is webcrawl?
Webcrawl can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of webcrawl?
The past tense of webcrawl is webcrawled.

Words near webcrawl in the dictionary

  1. webconferences
  2. webconferencing
  3. webcore
  4. webcrafter
  5. webcrafters
  6. webcrawl
  7. webcrawled
  8. webcrawling
  9. webcrawls
  10. WebDAV
  11. webdev

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Adapted from Wiktionary: webcrawl (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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