crawl
noun
1. a very slow movement
- the traffic advanced at a crawl
Definition categories: act, motion, move, movement
2. a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
Definition categories: act
3. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
Similar word(s): crawling, creep, creeping
Definition categories: act, locomotion, travel
verb
1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
Similar word(s): creep
Definition categories: motion, go, locomote, move, travel
2. feel as if crawling with insects
- My skin crawled--I was terrified
Definition categories: stative, feel
3. be full of
- The old cheese was crawling with maggots
Definition categories: stative, pullulate, swarm, teem
4. show submission or fear
Similar word(s): cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel
Definition categories: motion, bend, flex
5. swim by doing the crawl
- European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl
Definition categories: motion, swim
Sentences with crawl as a verb:
- Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
- The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
- Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
- The horrible sight made my skin crawl.
- I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.
- The baby crawled the entire second floor.
- They crawled the downtown bars.
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