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crawlingadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedthe crawling pace of the narrative is really frustrating creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky(or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried deliberate, measuredinactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounginglingering, loitering, tarryingambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footedstrollingdecelerating, slowingfilibustering, procrastinating, stalling barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, quickenedhurried, rushed crawlingverbpresent participle of crawlto move slowly with the body close to the groundthe time we had to crawl through a narrow passageway from one cave to another bellying, creeping, groveling(or grovelling), sliding, slithering, snaking, worming, wriggling crouching, squattingedging, inching, nosingskulking, sneaking, stealing, tiptoeing to move slowlythe weekend traffic on the road to the beach just crawled creaking (along), creeping, dragging, inching, limping, nosing, oozing, plodding, poking, slouching, snailing lumbering, shambling, shuffling, tramping, trudging flying, racing, speeding, whizzing, zipping floating, gliding, sailinghurrying, tearing to move or act slowlythe deadline is fast approaching, so this is no time to crawl creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking to be copiously suppliedsomething must be up, as city hall is crawling with reporters abounding, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting, bustling, buzzing, humming, overflowing, pullulating, swarming, teeming lacking, needing, wanting |