snailed

verb

past tense of snail
as in dragged
to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snailed
  1. dragged
  2. crawled
  3. crept
  4. shuffled
  5. poked
Verb
  • Police say the truck trapped and dragged the child before stopping.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But as the war dragged on and energy costs climbed, his tone changed.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of dragged
Verb
  • In May 2025, after Williams shut off the water in a cell, 10 inmates removed a toilet, crawled through a gap in the wall and scaled a fence out of the jail.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In real-world tests, the hand crawled across 14 different surfaces including smooth floors, metal grates, grass, and gravel.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of crawled
Verb
  • Europe has crept back on the scene in a real negative way, this time with France on the hot seat.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The aberrant digit only crept in because Ford owned the rights to Model E and wasn’t interested in selling.
    — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of crept
Verb
  • Uribe shuffled off the mound, and the crowd at American Family Field roared.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Kering is starting to clean house, having already shuffled creative directors at Gucci, Balenciaga and Bottega Veneta.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffled
Verb
  • Already poked, the league bear hasn’t exactly gone into hibernation, either.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Bellingham poked in Gordon's cross midway through the first half.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of poked
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“Snailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snailed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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