crawl with

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

crawl with (third-person singular simple present crawls with, present participle crawling with, simple past and past participle crawled with)

1. (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

• Usually used with continuous tenses (“crawling with”).
• “crawl with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Synonyms

• (to include or be covered with): teem with

Translations

Translations

• Russian: кише́ть (ru) impf (kišétʹ), кишмя́ кише́ть (ru) impf (kišmjá kišétʹ)