🐌 A slow animal 🐌 An edible mollusc 🧺 To gather snails 🐢 To move slowly

to snail

6.7

To move very slowly, making little progress

verb
/sneɪl/

: avanzar lentamente

He tends to snail when he's deep in thought, often losing track of time while walking.

Examples

After a late night, she found herself snailing through her morning routine, struggling to get out the door.
I was so tired after the long hike that I started to snail along the trail, moving slower than ever.
I started moving at the pace of what just snail would go to finish this.

Antonyms

to hurry

∞ 1.0

To move or act quickly because there is little time

to rush

548 1.0

To move or act quickly because a situation needs it

Compounds

snail mail

Informal

7 3.4

Letters and packages that are sent and delivered by the postal service

garden snail

1 1.6

A small animal with a shell that moves slowly and eats garden plants

brown snail

2.7

A small garden snail with a brown shell and pale zigzag lines that eats plants

cinnamon snail

2.8

A sweet pastry of rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar

edible snail

3.0

A snail that people eat, often in French cooking

sea snail

Specialized

5.1

A small cold water fish that uses suction cup fins to cling to rocks

snail-flower

Specialized

9.9

A tropical climbing plant with yellow and purple coiled flowers like a snail shell

snail bean

Specialized

9.9

A climbing tropical plant with yellow and purple flowers whose lower part is curled like a snail shell

snail butter

7.4

Flavored butter with garlic, shallots, and parsley used to cook snails

snail darter

Specialized

9.4

A small freshwater fish that eats snails and lives in the Tennessee River

snail flower

Specialized

9.9

A climbing vine with bright yellow and purple flowers that coil like a snail shell

How Fast

to walk

∞ 1.0

to plod

4 5.5

to snail

6.7

to crawl

406 1.0

Surface Forms

snail infinitive

snailing present participle

snails third person singular

snaild past

snaild past participle

Etymology

Snail as a verb meaning 'to move very slowly' comes from the animal snail, because the creature is famous for its slow pace. So to 'snail' along is to move like a snail, very slowly.