caterpillar
/ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/ verb C2- To move along slowly, drawing one's body up, in the manner of a caterpillar.
He/she/it caterpillars · Past caterpillared · Past participle caterpillared · -ing form caterpillaring
Verb forms
- Base form
- caterpillar
- He/she/it
- caterpillars
- Past
- caterpillared
- Past participle
- caterpillared
- -ing form
- caterpillaring
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She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
Advice from a Caterpillar
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
“Who are _you?_” said the Caterpillar.
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