acrawl

English

Etymology

a- +‎ crawl

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔːl

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 [spirit] 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, p. 99,
  Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them.
- 1912, Jack London, Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 8, p. 201,
  His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there.
- 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, London: Picador, 1976, Part 3, p. 164,
  Why, I’ll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows.

单词	acrawl
释义	acrawl English Etymology a- +‎ crawl Pronunciation Rhymes: -ɔːl 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 [spirit] 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, p. 99, Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them. 1912, Jack London, Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 8, p. 201, His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there. 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, London: Picador, 1976, Part 3, p. 164, Why, I’ll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows.
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