Covered or overspread with crawling creatures or movement; having something crawling all over it.
Past participle of 'becrawl,' formed with the '-ed' suffix to show a completed state of being covered with crawling movement or creatures.
This word has a distinctly unsettling quality—'becrawled with insects' sounds far creepier than just 'crawling with insects.' The 'be-' prefix gives it an air of inevitability, as if the crawling has thoroughly conquered the surface. Naturalists loved words with this texture of disgust.
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