crawl
/kɹɔːl/
To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby; To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty or frequent stops
- he/she/it
- crawls
- past participle
- crawled
Meanings
- 1
To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby
The baby began to crawl.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
Tom crawled out of the window.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty (for example due to feebleness) or frequent stops
- 3
To advance by guile and servility; to act in a servile manner, trying to please someone in order to gain favorrare
- 4
To spread by extending tendrils, stems, or branches; to creep or trail (as a vine)rare
- 5
To swim using the crawl strokerare
- 6
Followed by with: see crawl withrare
- 7
To feel a swarming sensation; to have a sensation like that produced by insects crawling over one's bodyrare
- 8
To spread unevenly; to fail to be or remain evenly spreadrare
- 9
To move over (an area) on hands and knees, or by dragging the body alongrare
- 10
To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stopsrare