CRAWLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crawling mean? 

• CRAWLING (noun)
  The noun CRAWLING has 1 sense:

1. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

  Familiarity information: CRAWLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAWLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crawl; crawling; creep; creeping

Context example:

the traffic moved at a creep

Hypernyms ("crawling" is a kind of...):

locomotion; travel (self-propelled movement)

Derivation:

crawl (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground)

 Context examples 

On the instant my flesh was creeping and crawling from the harsh contact.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dog and man watched it crawling along over the ice.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient describe feeling things on his/her skin or otherwise appear to be feeling things crawling or touching him/her?

(NPI - Describe Feeling Things on His/Her Skin, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms of lice may include: • Intense itching • Rash • Visible nits (lice eggs) or crawling lice

(Lice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

But the most hateful sight of all, was the lice crawling on their clothes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It's unclear how the first vertebrates thrived after crawling out of the sea 400 million years ago, but the lungs hold an important clue.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

His flesh was crawling as it had crawled that night when she clung to him, and his heart was warm with pity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At last, by a sudden impulse, just as our train was crawling out of a suburban station, he sprang on to the platform and pulled me out after him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then One Eye, creeping and crawling, every sense on the alert, every hair radiating infinite suspicion, joined her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)