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Meanings of
wormlike
in English
Totally submissive.
cringing
grovelling
groveling
wormy
Related terms
submissive
Synonyms
Examples for "
cringing
"
cringing
grovelling
groveling
wormy
Examples for "
cringing
"
1
Tracy Morgan's interview on the US Today show left us all
cringing
.
2
He stopped and looked back at the people
cringing
in the doorways.
3
He saw men
cringing
as they neared the flames, heard children cry.
4
Marco was holding it at arms' length, almost
cringing
away from it.
5
The spirit loses its hopefulness and independence and becomes servile and
cringing
.
1
The dethroned monster lay
grovelling
on the floor, not daring to move.
2
The soldier was on his knees,
grovelling
with face against the floor.
3
Perkins screamed with mad fear and flung himself
grovelling
upon the floor.
4
She was pleased that all the Court should see her thus
grovelling
.
5
He paused, and fell back again to the ground,
grovelling
and speechless.
1
Let it never be forgotten that there is nothing
groveling
in Odd-Fellowship.
2
Somehow it sounded like
groveling
and I've never been good at that.
3
There's still the
groveling
next generation of underdog letters to send out.
4
He was shipped off to the Tower of London and died
groveling
.
5
Hammer was a ruthless tyrant, but he didn't tolerate
groveling
or cowardice.
1
You're gonna drink to Crystal's memory with a glass of
wormy
water?
2
All bruised,
wormy
or injured apples should be discarded at picking time.
3
The arms of our backyard's apricot tree drooped with
wormy
fruit.
4
A few raindrops trickled onto the
wormy
chest they stood upon.
5
So if a bird happens to eat a parasitized caterpillar, it's bye-bye
wormy
.
Usage of
wormlike
in English
1
It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a
wormlike
extensile tongue.
2
Some are hairy caterpillars; others are smooth skinned and more
wormlike
.
3
Two unequal branches of the early
wormlike
organisms shrank into strong protective shells.
4
From other mouths,
wormlike
tentacles erupted, wriggled in the air, withdrew.
5
The tentacles protruding from her pinched,
wormlike
face writhed in irritation.
6
She wriggled
wormlike
through a level passage, an endless journey.
7
At full magnification we could see the
wormlike
Taxxons below.
8
Its head seemed a mass of
wormlike
tendrils, without any breaks or apparent openings.
9
In short, it is no longer a
wormlike
creature.
10
He told them, too, of his own encounter with the gigantic,
wormlike
koschei outside Ergushovo.
11
The room reeked with a thick, nauseating
wormlike
odor.
12
The runes seemed to wriggle,
wormlike
,
faster and faster.
13
Glowing green
wormlike
shapes writhe within the intruder's eyes.
14
Rings of muscle cause
wormlike
movements of the bowels, and so propel forward food and waste.
15
Something green and growing inside me stirred,
wormlike
.
16
Some of the
wormlike
creatures had evidently been climbing about on the tower, joining its innumerable parts.
Other examples for "wormlike"
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wormlike
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
wormlike creatures
wormlike tentacles
bulge with wormlike
cause wormlike
dangle a wormlike
More collocations
Wormlike
through the time