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- Dictionarycrawl/krɔːl/
verb
- 1. move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground: "they crawled from under the table" Similar
- 2. behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favour: informal "a reporter's job can involve crawling to objectionable people" Similar
noun
- 1. an act of moving on one's hands and knees or dragging one's body along the ground: "they began the crawl back to their own lines"
- 2. a swimming stroke involving alternate overarm movements and rapid kicks of the legs: "she could do the crawl and so many other strokes"
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CRAWL definition: 1. to move along on hands and knees or with your body stretched out along a surface: 2. to move or…. Learn more.
to move along on hands and knees or with your body stretched out along a surface: crawl across The child crawled across the floor. Megan has just learned to crawl. The injured soldier crawled to safety. He had to crawl along a ledge and get in through a window. [ I ] to move or progress slowly or with difficulty:
to try to please someone because you want them to like you or help you: My brother is always crawling to Mum. be crawling with sb/sth. to be full of insects or people in a way that is unpleasant: The kitchen's crawling with ants.
Crawl definition: to move in a prone position with the body resting on or close to the ground, as a worm or caterpillar, or on the hands and knees, as a young child.. See examples of CRAWL used in a sentence.
1. a. : to move on one's hands and knees. The baby crawled toward her mother. b. : to move slowly in a prone position without or as if without the use of limbs. The snake crawled into its hole. The soldiers crawled forward on their bellies. 2. : to move or progress slowly or laboriously. traffic crawling along at 10 miles an hour. 3.
To crawl is to move slowly across the floor on your hands and knees. Before they learn to walk, most babies crawl. You might crawl around looking for a lost earring, or watch a spider crawl across your ceiling. The slow, creeping movement itself is a crawl, too: "Traffic was moving at a crawl ."
The crawl is a kind of swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, swinging one arm over your head, and then the other arm.
Definition of crawl verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The word 'crawl' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to describe a slow movement or as a verb to mean to move slowly on hands and knees or dragging the body. For example, "The baby began to crawl across the floor.".
Definitions of 'crawl' 1. When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees. [...] 2. When an insect crawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly. [...] 3. If someone or something crawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty. [...] More. Conjugations of 'crawl' present simple: I crawl, you crawl [...]
