Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

acrawl

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: acrawl
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).

Example Sentences

"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 [spirit] on the belly, on the shoulders that, / Of one another lay, and this acrawl / Transferred himself along the mournful path."
"Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them."
"His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there."
"Why, I’ll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows."

Etymology

From a- + crawl.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: a

Synonyms

crawling teeming

Rhymes With

all at all small call tell all fall lol wall ball paul y'all overall

Questions

What does acrawl mean?: Crawling.
Where does acrawl come from?: From a- + crawl.

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