'Crawling' definitions:
Definition of 'crawling'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Crawling'
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]
Synonyms of 'crawling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- accumbent,
- alive with,
- all fours,
- ambling,
- amphibian,
- anguine,
- atiptoe,
- atmospherics,
- backscratching,
- batrachian,
- beggarly,
- blaring,
- blasting,
- blind spot,
- bootlicking,
- bristling,
- bursting,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- close,
- colubriform,
- compact,
- couchant,
- couche,
- cowering,
- crammed,
- crawl,
- creep,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- cringing,
- crocodilian,
- crouching,
- crowded,
- crowding,
- decumbent,
- deliberate,
- dense,
- draped,
- drift,
- easy,
- fade-out,
- fading,
- faltering,
- fawning,
- firm,
- flagging,
- flat,
- flattering,
- foot-dragging,
- footlicking,
- froggy,
- full,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- groveling,
- gumshoeing,
- halting,
- hangdog,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- honeycombed,
- idle,
- in profusion,
- indolent,
- ingratiating,
- interference,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lavish,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lizardlike,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- lumbering,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- moderate,
- nightwalking,
- noise,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on all fours,
- on bended knee,
- on tippytoe,
- on tiptoe,
- ophidian,
- overflowing,
- packed,
- padding,
- parasitic,
- permeated,
- poking,
- poky,
- populous,
- procumbent,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proliferating,
- prolific,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- prowling,
- pussyfooting,
- reception,
- reclining,
- recumbent,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- repent,
- reposing,
- reptant,
- reptatorial,
- reptile,
- reptilelike,
- reptilian,
- reptiliform,
- reptiloid,
- resupine,
- rife,
- saturated,
- sauntering,
- saurian,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- serpentiform,
- serpentile,
- serpentine,
- serpentlike,
- serpentoid,
- serried,
- shot through,
- shuffling,
- sidling,
- slack,
- slinking,
- slithering,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- snakelike,
- snaking,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sniveling,
- solid,
- sponging,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- staggering,
- static,
- stealing,
- strolling,
- studded,
- superabundant,
- supine,
- swarming,
- sycophantic,
- teeming,
- tentative,
- thick,
- thick as hail,
- thick with,
- thick-coming,
- thronged,
- thronging,
- timeserving,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- toadeating,
- toadish,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- truckling,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- viperiform,
- viperish,
- viperlike,
- viperoid,
- viperous,
- vipery,
- waddling,
- worming