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Princeton's WordNet

  1. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingnoun

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

    "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

Wikipedia

  1. Crawling

    Crawling is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. It is the second single from their debut album Hybrid Theory and is the fifth track on the album. It was released in 2000 as their second single and won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2002. In January 2011, "Crawling" was released in a Linkin Park DLC pack for Rock Band 3.

ChatGPT

  1. crawling

    Crawling generally refers to the movement process wherein an individual or animal moves forward by dragging or pulling their body along the ground, often using the hands and knees for support. In the context of technology and computing, crawling refers to an automated process where a software called a crawler visits websites and indexes or gathers information for later retrieval and analysis.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Crawling

    of Crawl

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CRAWLING in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CRAWLING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of CRAWLING in a Sentence

  1. Rita Wilson:

    This leased house that we were living in -- there was an unfinished room downstairs where there was standing water and black mold. It was crawling up through the dry wall, like worms almost, into the air conditioning and heating ducts, and we were breathing it in for the four years. I got the fungus in my lung which can kill you.

  2. Susie Bartlett:

    We got poked and scratched by spiny branches when crawling through to access the animals.

  3. James Ramsey:

    I am a little long in the tooth to be dressed up like some forest elf crawling around stalking 'hogs but it is just as fun as I remembered it,' i have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground.

  4. Alex Villanueva:

    They need to really pick and choose very carefully.because for them it’s very easy to say, ‘Oh yeah, all cops are bad,’ and, ‘Let’s reform and defund the police,' yet they’re the very first ones to pick up the 911 when someone’s crawling over their back gate trying to get into their house.

  5. Drew Hammill:

    Once again, House Republicans are crawling to the courts to relieve them of their responsibility to govern, republicans should stop wasting millions of taxpayer dollars suing the President, and start showing some seriousness for the security of the American people.

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