Crawling and Squirming

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Crawling adjective - Moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed.

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Squirming and crawling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Squirming" instead an adjective "Crawling".

Nearby Words: crawl, crawled, crawler, crawly

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Crawling and squirming are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crawling" instead an adjective "Squirming".

Nearby Words: squirm, squirmed, squirmy

And I Must Scream: Bartok's karmic end has him reduced to a hideously deformed mutant crawling around in a pit, pitifully squirming around, and barely able to even feed himself.

Source: Film / The Fly II
It is not a squirming, creeping, smearing shape I see upon the moon, not the shape of a great deformed crab scuttling out of the black oceans of infinity and invading the island of the moon, crawling with its innumerable bodies upon all the spinning islands of inky space.

Source: Cosmic Horror Story

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