Crawl - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body (syn: creep, creeping)
verb
- swim by doing the crawl
Extra examples
Does the baby crawl yet?
We got down on our knees and crawled through a small opening.
The baby crawled across the floor toward her mother.
The soldiers crawled forward on their bellies.
The snake crawled into its hole.
They're doing construction on the road, so traffic is crawling.
I worked late into the night, and it was 2 a.m. before I finally crawled into bed.
The bus crawled along the rough and narrow road.
The days slowly crawled by.
Work on the project has crawled to a standstill.
Near the construction site, traffic had slowed to a crawl.
The bus was moving along at a crawl.
Her strongest stroke is the crawl.
The cheap room was dark, dirty, and crawling with spiders.
After the explosion, the town was crawling with soldiers.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: crawl
he/she/it: crawls
present participle: crawling
past tense: crawled
past participle: crawled
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