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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 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. The lorry crawled noisily up the hill. crawl along There's a lot of work to be done and we're crawling along at a snail's pace.
When an insect crawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly. I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade. [VERB preposition] If someone or something crawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty. I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty. [VERB preposition/adverb]
The meaning of CRAWL is to move on one's hands and knees. How to use crawl in a sentence.
CRAWL definition: 1. to move on your hands and knees: 2. If an insect crawls, it uses its legs to move: 3. If…. Learn more.
Definition of crawl verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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."
Master the word "CRAWL" in English: definitions, translations, synonyms, pronunciations, examples, and grammar insights - all in one complete resource.
To move slowly on the hands and knees or by dragging the body along the ground; creep: The baby crawled across the floor. 2. To advance slowly, feebly, laboriously, or with frequent stops: We crawled along in traffic until we reached the highway. 3.
CRAWL meaning: 1. to move along on hands and knees or with your body stretched out along a surface: 2. to move or…. Learn more.
to visit or go to (pubs, restaurants, etc.) one after the other:[~ + object] a night of crawling the pubs. a slow, crawling motion. a slow rate of progress: moving at a crawl through the toll gates.
