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becrawl en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“about, all over”) + crawl.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To 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:
   • "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:

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