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Crawling vs Acrawl - What's the difference?

crawling | acrawl |

As a verb crawling

is .

As a noun crawling

is the motion of something that crawls.

As an adjective acrawl is

crawling, teeming.

crawling

English

(wikipedia crawling)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that crawls.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
    • Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

    Anagrams

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    acrawl

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • crawling, teeming
  • * 1962 , Ken Kesey, One flew over the cuckoo's nest
    • Why, I'll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows.