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• present participle of crawl.

crawling

British  

/ ˈkrɔːlɪŋ /

noun

1. a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging

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crawling

As they were still teenagers, they were better able to squeeze through narrow spaces, crawling between concrete slabs lit only by a handheld torch or mobile phone so they could tell rescuers where to dig.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Navarro escaped by throwing himself into a ditch and crawling away, but hasn't seen his wife, who remains missing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

Something kept crawling over her body, flickering its antennae as it puzzled over the addition to its home.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer