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crawl

/ˈkrɑːn̩/

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verb

crawls; crawled; crawling

[no obj]

to move on your hands and knees

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.

to move with the body close to or on the ground

The soldiers crawled forward on their bellies.

The snake crawled into its hole.

There's a spider crawling [=moving forward on its legs] up the wall.

[no obj] :to move slowly

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.

Traffic has crawled to a stop/standstill. [=has come to a complete stop after moving very slowly]

Work on the project has crawled to a standstill.

[+ obj] :to move slowly on, across, or through (something)

We all got into the old truck and crawled the streets of the city looking for him.

[no obj] :to be full of many people, insects, animals, etc. - usually used in the phrase be crawling with

The courthouse is crawling [=teeming] with reporters today.

The table was crawling with ants.

[no obj] Brit informal + disapproving :to be extremely nice to someone in order to get approval or some advantage for yourself

He's been crawling [=creeping] to the boss for months, so it's no surprise he got a promotion.

come/go crawling to

informal

If you come/go crawling (back) to someone, you go to someone for help or approval in a way that shows you are weak or sorry for what you have done.

Don't come crawling to me for help later if you aren't going to listen to me now.

He's gone crawling back to his old girlfriend.

crawl out of the woodwork

xem woodwork

make your skin/flesh crawl

If something makes your skin/flesh crawl, it causes you to have an uncomfortable feeling of fear or disgust.

Just thinking about being down in that dark cave makes my skin crawl.

noun

[singular] a very slow speed

Near the construction site, traffic had slowed to a crawl.

The bus was moving along at a crawl.

a way of swimming in which the swimmer lies facing down in the water and moves first one arm over the head and then the other while kicking the legs

Her strongest stroke is the crawl. - see also pub crawl

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