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crabbingverbpresent participle of crab to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelytheir two-year-old whined and crabbed for the whole car trip beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, croaking, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, maundering(chiefly British), moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging(or whingeing, British), whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowling objecting (to), protesting, quarreling (with)(or quarrelling (with))caviling(or cavilling), quibblingfretting, stewing, worryingblubbering, crying, sobbingbemoaning, bewailing, deploring, lamenting kicking up a fuss crowing, delighting, rejoicing accepting, bearing, countenancing, enduring, taking, toleratingapplauding, cheering, commending to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection ofcrabbed the blossoming romance by becoming moody and demanding blemishing, bloodying, breaking, compromising, crippling, crossing (up), damaging, defacing, disfiguring, endamaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, spoiling, vitiating deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakeningeroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)blighting, tarnishingdenting, dinging, dintingbotching, gumming (up), queeringlacerating, woundingdisabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturingannihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing, revamping curing, healing, helping, rectifying, rehabilitating, remedyingediting, remodeling, revisingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining |