'Crawl' definitions:
Definition of 'crawl'
(from WordNet)
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 [syn: crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl]
noun
A slow 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" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping]
verb
Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [syn: crawl, creep]
verb
Feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
verb
Be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
verb
verb
Swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
Definition of 'Crawl'
From: GCIDE
- Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]
- 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. [1913 Webster]
- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. [1913 Webster]
- He was hardly able to crawl about the room. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. [1913 Webster]
- Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crawl'
From: GCIDE
- Crawl \Crawl\ (kr?l), n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crawl'
From: GCIDE
- Crawl \Crawl\, n. [Cf. Kraal.] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crawl'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abound,
- all fours,
- amble,
- andante,
- aquaplaning,
- aquatics,
- Australian crawl,
- backstroke,
- balneation,
- bathe,
- bathing,
- bend the knee,
- blister,
- bootlick,
- bow,
- bow and scrape,
- breaststroke,
- butterfly,
- castigate,
- claudicate,
- claudication,
- couch,
- cower,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- dead march,
- diving,
- dog paddle,
- dogtrot,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag on,
- drag out,
- edge,
- excoriate,
- fawn,
- feel creepy,
- feel funny,
- fin,
- fishtail,
- flapper,
- flatter,
- flay,
- flipper,
- floating,
- flow,
- footpace,
- funeral march,
- go dead slow,
- go on,
- go on tiptoe,
- go slow,
- grovel,
- gumshoe,
- gumshoeing,
- have gooseflesh,
- have the creeps,
- hobble,
- hug the earth,
- idle,
- inch,
- inch along,
- jog,
- jog trot,
- jog-trot,
- kneel,
- kowtow,
- lay,
- laze,
- leisurely gait,
- lick the dust,
- lickspittle,
- lie,
- lie down,
- lie flat,
- lie limply,
- lie low,
- lie prone,
- lie prostrate,
- lie under,
- limp,
- linger,
- linger on,
- loll,
- lounge,
- lumbering pace,
- mincing steps,
- mosey,
- natation,
- nightwalk,
- nightwalking,
- pad,
- padding,
- plod,
- poke,
- poke along,
- prowl,
- prowling,
- pullulate,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooting,
- rack,
- recline,
- repose,
- roast,
- saunter,
- scathe,
- scorch,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- shamble,
- shuffle,
- shuffle along,
- sidestroke,
- sidle,
- sidling,
- slam,
- slide,
- slink,
- slinking,
- slouch,
- slow march,
- slow motion,
- snake,
- snaking,
- sneak,
- sneaking,
- sprawl,
- squat,
- squirm,
- stagger along,
- steal,
- steal along,
- stealing,
- stoop,
- stroll,
- surfboarding,
- surfing,
- swarm,
- swim,
- swimming,
- tarry,
- teem,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- toadeat,
- toady,
- toddle,
- toddle along,
- totter along,
- traipse,
- treading water,
- truckle,
- trudge,
- underlie,
- waddle,
- wading,
- walk,
- waterskiing,
- wear on,
- wiggle,
- worm,
- worm along,
- worming,
- wriggle