becrawl

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verb

To crawl about; crawl all over.

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Meanings

verbbecrawl (third-person singular simple present becrawls, present participle becrawling, simple past and past participle becrawled)

present singular third person becrawls · participle present becrawling · participle past becrawled · past becrawled

  1. ambitransitiveTo crawl about; crawl all over.

    Nor becrawl on me, bedam, Nor my nose besettle on, Howso in thy sight it shone.

    1949, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 216 - Page 683
    1 more example

    "Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away.

    1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib - Page 84

Origin

From be- (“about, all over”) + crawl.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with becrawl

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Cite this entry
APA

becrawl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/becrawl

MLA

“becrawl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/becrawl. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “becrawl,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/becrawl.

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