grouiller — meaning in English

English meaning

• crawl verb To move on hands and knees, or drag the body low along a surface.
• swarm noun A large group of insects, especially bees, moving or migrating together.
• teem verb To be stocked to overflowing.
• vamoose verb To leave quickly, especially to escape or avoid trouble.

Senses

grouiller is used for these senses in English:

• crawl (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
• crawl (transitive, internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
• teem To be stocked to overflowing.
• vamoose (intransitive, slang) To hurry.

crawl — full definition

1. verb To move on hands and knees, or drag the body low along a surface.
2. verb To move or progress very slowly.
3. verb For a computer program to automatically visit and index web pages.
4. noun A very slow pace, or a tour of several bars in one night ("bar crawl").

swarm — full definition

1. noun A large group of insects, especially bees, moving or migrating together.
2. noun A large moving crowd of people or animals.
3. verb To move together in a large, dense group.
4. verb To be filled or overrun with something, especially insects or people.

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