To crawl is to move slowly across the floor on your hands and knees. Before they learn to walk, most babies crawl.
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep.
Noun
a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
Noun
a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
Noun
a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
Verb
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
Verb
swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don''t know how to crawl"
Verb
show submission or fear
Verb
be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
Verb
feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
v. i.
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
v. i.
to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
v. i.
To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
v. i.
To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
n.
The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping
animal.
n.
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast,
for holding fish.
Crawl
A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.2.
He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.3.
Secretly crawling up the battered walls.
Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
Absurd opinions crawl about the world.4.
Crawl
Crawl
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep.
The act or motion of crawling;low motion, as of a creeping animal.
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
Usage Examples
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Other Usage ExamplesLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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