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

to snail

6.7
To move very slowly, making little progress
  • verb
  • /sneɪl/
translation icon : 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
  • UK
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.