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- 1. a point on a scale of exchange rates in which a currency's value is allowed to go up or down frequently by small amounts within overall limits: "the ERM was a crawling-peg system"
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to be completely covered with or full of a particular type of thing: After the bomb scare, the airport was crawling with police.
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:
9 meanings: 1. to move slowly, either by dragging the body along the ground or on the hands and knees 2. to proceed or move.... Click for more definitions.
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.
n. 1. The action of moving slowly on the hands or knees or dragging the body along the ground. 2. An extremely slow pace: Traffic was moving at a crawl. 3. Sports A rapid swimming stroke consisting of alternating overarm strokes and a flutter kick. 4.
5 days ago · a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body. synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping.
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."
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective crawling. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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. Grammar Question. Fill in the blank with the correct answer.
to move or progress slowly or with difficulty: The lorry crawled noisily up the hill. There's a lot of work to be done and we're crawling along at a snail's pace. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to move slowly. crawl There'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling. trundle Lorries trundle through the narrow lanes.
