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Meaning of 'crawl' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Crawl [ n.]
- The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
- A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
2 . Crawl [ v. i.]
- To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
- to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
- To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
- To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

Meaning of 'crawl' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . crawl [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Example in sentence:
  • a crawl was all that the injured man could manage;
  • the traffic moved at a creep
Meaning (2):
- a very slow movement
Example in sentence:
  • the traffic advanced at a crawl
3 . crawl [ v]
Meaning (3):
- swim by doing the crawl
Example in sentence:
  • European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl
Meaning (4):
- feel as if crawling with insects
Example in sentence:
  • My skin crawled--I was terrified
Meaning (5):
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
Example in sentence:
  • The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
Meaning (6):
- be full of
Example in sentence:
  • The old cheese was crawling with maggots

Nearby Words:

crab crab tree crab-yaws crabbed crabber crabbing crabbish crabby crabeater craber

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