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Crawl   /krɔl/   Listen
Crawl

verb
(past & past part. crawled; pres. part. crawling)
1.
Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground.  Synonym: creep.
2.
Feel as if crawling with insects.
3.
Be full of.
4.
Show submission or fear.  Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel.
5.
Swim by doing the crawl.
noun
1.
A very slow movement.
2.
A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick.  Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl.
3.
A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body.  Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping.  "The traffic moved at a creep"



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"Crawl" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tattooing artists would crawl over the bulwarks, followed by his sitter; and then a bare arm or leg would be extended, and the disagreeable business of "pricking" commence, right under my eyes; or an irruption of tars, with ditty-bags or sea-reticules, and piles of old trowsers to ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... still more speed, but the aeroplane was doing its best. But fast as it was going, it seemed to crawl up on the train at a snail pace. The tail ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... the other. 'No. That was in Wellington, New Zealand. I was bad, and got lower an' lower—couldn't think what was up. I could hardly crawl about. As certain as I'm here, she was poisoning me, to get to th' other chap—I'm certain ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence
... child is taught by the daily example of its mother what to look upon as the essentials of life. "I feel miserable," said a feeble house-mother, just recovering from sickness; "but I managed to crawl out into the kitchen, and stir up a loaf of cake." Now, why should a sick woman have crawled out into the kitchen, to stir up a loaf of cake? Was that a paramount duty,—one which demanded the outlay of her little all of strength? This is ...
— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz
... say any vehicle would seem to crawl to us, Peggy. But we are going home, home. Oh, I could just shout, I am ...
— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison


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