crawl with
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crawl with (third-person singular simple present crawls with, present participle crawling with, simple past and past participle crawled with)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To include or be covered with swarms or large numbers of (something, especially insects or people); to have in great numbers or multitudes.
- The kitchen was crawling with cockroaches.
- The scene of the incident was crawling with reporters for days afterwards.
Usage notes[edit]
- Usually used with continuous tenses (“crawling with”).
- “crawl with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Synonyms[edit]
- (to include or be covered with): teem with
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