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Servile vs Crawling - What's the difference?

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Servile is a related term of crawling.


As nouns the difference between servile and crawling

is that servile is (grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root while crawling is the motion of something that crawls.

As an adjective servile

is of or pertaining to a slave.

As a verb crawling is

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servile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to a slave
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
  • submissive or slavish
    • servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience
  • (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
    • a servile letter
  • (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e'' in ''tune .

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.

    • Antonyms

    * radical

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    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.

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