Crawl
31crawl — crawl1 [ krɔl ] verb intransitive * 1. ) crawl across/along/through etc. to move along the ground on your hands and knees or with your body close to the ground: She crawled across the floor, her eyes stinging from the smoke. They crawled through… …
32crawl — I UK [krɔːl] / US [krɔl] verb [intransitive] Word forms crawl : present tense I/you/we/they crawl he/she/it crawls present participle crawling past tense crawled past participle crawled * 1) a) to move along the ground on your hands and knees or… …
33crawl´er — crawl1 «krl», verb, noun. –v.i. 1. to move slowly by pulling the body along the ground: »Worms and snakes crawl. 2. to creep on hands and knees: »A baby crawls before it walks. The boys crawled through a hole in the wall. 3. Figurative. to move… …
34crawl — 01. The baby [crawled] across the rug towards the puppy. 02. Traffic was [crawling] through the downtown core at rush hour. 03. When we came back to our picnic basket, we found that there were ants [crawling] across the blanket, and into our food …
35crawl — crawl1 crawlingly, adv. /krawl/, v.i. 1. 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. 2. (of plants or vines) to extend tendrils; creep. 3. to… …
36crawl — 1 verb (I) 1 MOVE ON HANDS AND KNEES to move along on your hands and knees with your body close to the ground (+ along/across etc): She suddenly got down and crawled along behind the wall so that Carl wouldn t see her. | Is your baby crawling… …
37crawl — {{11}}crawl (n.) 1818, from CRAWL (Cf. crawl) (v.); in the swimming sense from 1903, the stroke developed by Frederick Cavill, well known English swimmer who emigrated to Australia and modified the standard stroke of the day after observing South …
38crawl — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse krafla Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to move slowly in a prone position without or as if without the use of limbs < the snake crawled into its hole > 2. to move or progress slowly or… …
39crawl — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. creep, lag, drag; cringe, fawn, cower, grovel. See servility, slowness, lowness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To move like an insect] Syn. creep, worm along, wriggle, squirm, slither, move on hands and… …
40crawl — I. /krɔl / (say krawl) verb (i) 1. to move by dragging the body along the ground, as a worm, or on the hands and knees, as a young child. 2. to progress slowly, laboriously, or timorously: *Time crawls in deliberate collusion with the speed of… …
