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Crawling vs Scrawling - What's the difference?

crawling | scrawling |

As verbs the difference between crawling and scrawling

is that crawling is while scrawling is .

As nouns the difference between crawling and scrawling

is that crawling is the motion of something that crawls while scrawling is something scrawled.

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.

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    scrawling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something scrawled.
  • The teacher squinted irritably at my illegible scrawlings .