🕸️ Spider webs 🕸️ To cover with webs

to cobwebbing

8.2

To get covered with spider webs or to cover something with them when not used and not cleaned

verb
/ˈkɑːbˌwɛbɪŋ/

: cubrir de telarañas

If you leave the windows open, the corners will quickly begin cobwebbing.

Examples

The abandoned house was cobwebbing in every room by the time they returned.
The attic had started cobwebbing after years without anyone visiting.
The old barn is cobwebbing in the corner.
After years of neglect, the shed was cobwebbing badly.
The old house had been cobwebbing for so long that no one remembered its original color.
After several months of abandonment, the garage began cobwebbing in all the corners.
The forgotten room was cobwebbing with dust and spider webs when they finally ventured inside.

Synonyms

to web

vsto cobwebbing

1 6.8

To make a thin net of threads over something

describes passive covering from neglect rather than active weaving

to spiderweb

vsto cobwebbing

5.3

To cover something with thin lines like a spider's web

becomes covered by old neglected threads over time

Antonyms

to clear

∞ 1.5

To remove people or things from a place

to uncover

37 2.7

Remove a cover to show what is under it

How Neglected

to abandon

773 3.1

to cobwebbing

8.2

to neglect

256 3.8

to ignore

∞ 1.0

to overlook

243 2.9

Surface Forms

cobwebbing infinitive

cobwebbed past

cobwebbed past participle

cobwebbing present participle

cobwebs third person singular

Morphology

cobwebbing = cobweb (transparent) = cobweb + ing

The verb sense is the -ing form of the verb 'to cobweb' (derived from the noun), and its meaning (being covered with cobwebs) is directly inferable.

Etymology

Cobwebbing as a verb comes from the noun cobweb, the web a cob, an old word for 'spider', makes, and web meaning 'net' or 'woven threads'. So to cobweb or to be cobwebbing is to become covered with those webs, usually because something has been left unused or not cleaned.