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  • adjective crawling, teeming

Etymologies

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a- +‎ crawl

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Examples

  • The whole body was acrawl with life, and Tom King knew that it was a life that had never oozed its freshness out through the aching pores during the long fights wherein Youth paid its toll and departed not quite so young as when it entered.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • Nor will the eternal movelessness that is coming to me be made easier or harder by the sacrifices or selfishnesses of the time when I was yeasty and acrawl.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • The whole body was acrawl with life, and Tom King knew that it was a life that had never oozed its freshness out through the aching pores during the long fights wherein Youth paid its toll and departed not quite so young as when it entered.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • He tested its balance almost unconsciously: lean too far to either side, and it slowed to acrawl.

    Achille's Choice Niven, Larry 1991

  • The floor was acrawl with small, furry, ratlike creatures.

    Alliance Oltion, Jerry 1990

  • Zorkagrad must be acrawl with Merseian undercover men.

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

  • Ryeland ran, climbed, swung himself over the fence, ripped off his clothes, balled and hid them under a body and flung himself, naked and acrawl with revulsion, onto the heap of pale, cold corpses.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Around it was a scaffolding of steel and aluminum, acrawl with tiny figures that manipulated minute, blue-white welding flames.

    The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

  • Bassett, with his own eyes, saw color and colors transform into sound till the whole visible surface of the vast sphere was acrawl and titillant and vaporous with what he could not tell was color or was sound.

    The Red One 1918

  • The whole body was acrawl with life, and Tom King knew that it was a life that had never oozed its freshness out through the aching pores during the long fights wherein Youth paid its toll and departed not quite so young as when it entered.

    A Piece of Steak 1911

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