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crawling

craw·ling

UK/ˈkɹɑlɪŋ/ US/ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/ fairly common

noun

1.

a slow creeping 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”

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