crawl

Speech parts

1. crawl - Noun

2. crawl - Verb

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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a crawl was all that the injured man could manage Source: Internet

the traffic moved at a creep Source: Internet

the traffic advanced at a crawl Source: Internet

The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed Source: Internet

European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl Source: Internet

The old cheese was crawling with maggots Source: Internet

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