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How to pronounce “crabbed”
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Pronunciation guide for crabbed
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of crabbed with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 1 YouTube example
- Real speech example
- Day After Night
Concentric lines that scrawled a crabbed and painful hieroglyphic
- Definition summary
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Example 1 of 1
How to pronounce crabbed
Day After Night

Concentric lines that scrawled a crabbed and painful hieroglyphic
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “crabbed”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- Cramped, bent.
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
- (aviation, of an approach and landing) Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of crab
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