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Crawl

/krɔːl/
To move slowly with the body close to the ground, often on hands and knees; or to progress sluggishly in a specified direction.

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Examples:

Mandrake crawled back to Ripper.

And everything was crawling, stirring, rustling...

My skin crawls.

Etymology:

etymology
Derived from Middle English crawlen, from Old Norse krafla, which is related to krapla (to creep) possibly reflecting its Scandinavian origins.

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