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crawl

(kr/O/l )

a very slow movement(noun.act)

Example:
The traffic advanced at a crawl.

source: wordnet30
a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick(noun.act)

Synonym:
australian crawl, front crawl

source: wordnet30
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body(noun.act)

Example:
A crawl was all that the injured man could manage.

Synonym:
crawling, creep, creeping

source: wordnet30
The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.(noun)

source: webster1913
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.(noun)

source: webster1913

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground(verb.motion)

Example:
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed.

Synonym:
creep

source: wordnet30
feel as if crawling with insects(verb.stative)

Example:
My skin crawled--I was terrified.

source: wordnet30
be full of(verb.stative)

Example:
The old cheese was crawling with maggots.

source: wordnet30
show submission or fear(verb.motion)

Synonym:
cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel

source: wordnet30
swim by doing the crawl(verb.motion)

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

source: wordnet30
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.(verb)

source: webster1913

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