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spidered

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verb

  1. To move like a spider.
  2. To cover a surface like a cobweb.
  3. (of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.“The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.”

adjective

  1. Infested by spiders; covered in cobwebs“Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, pp. 3, 1st Paperback Ed.”

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