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English
Etymology
From a- + crawl.
Pronunciation
Adjective
acrawl (not comparable)
- Crawling.
- 1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849,
- an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me.
- 1865, William Michael Rossetti (translator), The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Part I—The Hell, London: Macmillan, Canto 29, p. 208,
- This on the belly, on the shoulders that, / Of one another lay, and this acrawl / Transferred himself along the mournful path.
- Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).
- Synonyms: crawling, teeming
1881, John Todhunter, The True Tragedy of Rienzi, Tribune of Rome, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, act IV, scene 2, page 99:Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them.
1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 201:His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there.