Crawl

Definition: Crawl

Crawl

Noun

1. A very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl".

2. A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick.

3. A slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep".

Verb

1. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed".

2. Feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified".

3. Be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots".

4. Show submission or fear.

5. Swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crawl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Note: Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Crawled (kr[add]ld); present participle verb or noun Crawling.]. (Websters 1913)

Dream Interpretation

General

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crawl

Cold

Chill, freeze. (render cold); horripilate, make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Servility

Sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Tergiversation

Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl.

Crosswords: Crawl

French (crawl), Italian (crawl), Spanish (crawl), Swedish (crawl).

That's right, the same plants and flowers that saw you crawl from the primordial soup will reclaim the planet. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I'll get even if I have to crawl back from the grave to do it! (Marked Woman; writing credit: Abem Finkel; Robert Rossen)

! Why, so you can crawl in after I've gone? (The Accountant; writing credit: Andrew White)

Dumb enough to let a lizard crawl up your leg. (Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain; writing credit: Barry Glasser)

I got to get into this dude's pelt and crawl around for a few days. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

You have to learn to crawl (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith)

You fall and you crawl and you break (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

I wanna crawl under your skin (Tell Me; performing artist: Billie Myers)

I heard sirens there, the lights flash and crawl (I Did It; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

You will fly and you will crawl (Even Angels Fall; performing artist: Jessica Riddle)

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars: the pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out. (references; author: unknown)

Crawl Stroke Kid (1927)

They Crawl (2001)

Learning to Crawl (1999)

Do the Crawl (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Can Snakes Crawl Backward?: Questions and Answers About Reptiles (Scholastic Question and Answer Series) (reference)

• Crawl Low Under Smoke (Fire Safety.) (reference)

• Crawl With God, Dance in the Spirit!: A Creative Formulation of Korean Theology of the Spirit (reference)

• Some Crawl and Never Walk (reference)

• Someone to Crawl Back to (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• They Crawl (reference)

• Crawl Into My Parlour:Art of Killing (reference)

• Crawl Into My Parour:Itching for Icho (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Crawl [EP] (reference)

• Crawl to the Music [BOX SET] (reference)

• Learning to Crawl (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

NOAA helicopter pilots do the darndest things! I think I'll crawl in this hole and find out what's there Photo #1 of sequence Operations off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Senior Airman Daniel Dance, Air Force Special Operations Command, draws a clean line through the low crawl obstacle of the Fitness Challenge during Defender Challenge 2000 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 30. Defender Challenge is the annual Air Fo.

Religious liberty is guaranteed : but can we allow foreign reptiles to crawl all over us?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the inclosure of the elephant, and helped the (r)momes to crawl through the breach.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Workers in these jobs may have to enter various buildings, crawl spaces, or other sites that may be rodent infested. (references)

Construction and utility workers can be exposed when they work in crawl spaces under houses or in vacant buildings that may have a rodent population. (references)

Infants with cerebral palsy are frequently slow to reach developmental milestones, such as learning to roll over, sit, crawl, smile, or walk. This is sometimes called developmental delay. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

Internal transport had slowed to a crawl, and inflation remained high. (references)

Vietnam

Instead of undertaking greater liberalization, the Vietnamese government retrenched and during 1998 and 1999 the pace of reforms slowed to a crawl. (references)

Japan

Together with the demands by manufacturers for just-in-time parts and components delivery from subcontractors, this results in huge numbers of trucks on inadequate urban roads and highways during daytime business hours, slowing traffic to a crawl in major urban centers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "crawl": australian crawl ♦ back crawl ♦ crawl along at ♦ crawl away ♦ crawl in ♦ crawl on all fours ♦ crawl on the floor ♦ crawl out ♦ crawl over ♦ crawl space ♦ Crawl stroke ♦ crawl through ♦ crawl to ♦ crawl to smb. ♦ crawl with ♦ crawl with smth. ♦ do the crawl ♦ front crawl ♦ go at a crawl ♦ go on a pub crawl ♦ make smb.'s skin crawl ♦ make the skin crawl ♦ pub crawl ♦ swim the crawl ♦ the crawl ♦ track crawl search. Additional references.

Beginning with "crawl": crawl-spaces.

Ending with "crawl": bar-crawl, dog-crawl, pub-crawl, reverse-crawl, slow-crawl.

Afrikaans

kruip (creep). (various references)

Albanian

zvarritje (crawling, creep, creeping, dragging, lugging, procrastination, scuff, spreading, trailing), zvarritem (crawl over, creep, creep along, draggle, traipse, trapes), servilosem (lackey, lacquey), not krol, ngjethem (creep, quake, shiver, shudder), hiqem zvarrë, gëlon (abound, come in multitude, flow, swarm, teem, throng), ecje e ngadaltë, eci këmbadoras (creep). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حظيرة السلاحف, ‏تنمل اليد (creep), ‏تنمل, ‏تقدم ببطئ, ‏تقدم ببطء (inch, limp), ‏سباحة سريعة, ‏زحف (crawl on all fours, crawling, creep, creeping, draggle, grovel, march, scramble, trail), ‏دبيب, ‏دب (bear, creeping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унижавам се (abase oneself, decline, deign, eat humble pie, grovel, prostrate oneself, stoop, swallow one's pride), кроул, гъмжа (infest, pullulate, swarm, teem), гъдел ме е (tickle), влачене (haul, haulage, lug, shuffle, tow, towage, traction), влача се (linger, lollop, lounge about, plod, roll, shamble, shuffle, slouch, toil, trapes, trapse, wear away), лазене (scramble), пълзя (gad, grovel, ramble, ramp, run), пълзене (creep), плувам кроул. (various references)

Chinese 

爬行 (Crawled, Crawling, Creeping, creeps, Crept, scramble, scrambled), 爬 (climb), 匍 (lie prostrate, to circle, to surround), �' (climb, cling to, dig up, hold on to, pull, push aside, rake, snatch, to strip). (various references)

Czech

plazit se (creep, grovel, slink, trail), odplazit se (crawl away), lézt (climb, sprawl, worm), hemžit se (abound, Eddy, shoal, swarm, teem). (various references)

Danish

krybe (creep). (various references)

Dutch

kruipen (creep). (various references)

Esperanto

rampi (creep). (various references)

Faeroese

skríða (creep), krúpa (creep), grulva (creep). (various references)

Farsi 

سینه مال رفتن (Grovel), عمل خزیدن , خزیدن (Creep, Glide, Grovel, Ramp, Slime, Slither, Worm), شنال کرال . (various references)

Finnish

ryömiä (creep), madella (creep, cringe), kontata (creep), kompuroida (scramble), kömpiä (shuffle). (various references)

French

ramper (creep), crawl. (various references)

Frisian

krûpe (creep). (various references)

German

kriechen (creep, cringe, grovel, to crawl, to creep, to cringe, to truckle, toady, truckle). (various references)

Greek 

σύρσιμο (crawling), σύρομαι (be dragged, creep, drag, trail). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשחות חתיר�", לשרוץ (abound, be infested, breed, infest, pullulate, swarm, teem), לזחול (creep, cringe, worm), ל�"צטמרר (creep, shake, shiver), שחית חתיר�", זחיל�" (creeping, slowpoke, sluggishness). (various references)

Hungarian

mászás (clamber, climb, climbing, creep, scramble), kúszás (clamber, creep, scramble). (various references)

Indonesian

merayap, merangkak (creep, cringe), melata (creep, slither), bergerak perlahan. (various references)

Inuktitut

paarnguqtuq (to crawl). (various references)

Italian

crawl. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

匐 , 匍 (creep), クレブス回路 (checkroom, cleanser, cleansing cream, cleansing lotion, cleric, cloakroom, clone, close, closed, closed stance, closed system, closet, close-up, closure, Kraepelin, Krebs cycle, Kremlin, Kremlinology). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふく (additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bend down, clothes, collateral, compound, copy, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, good fortune, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to), ほく (north), ほ (a step, a stride, counter for steps, creep, ear, guarantee, head, sail, shop, store), クロール . (various references)

Korean 

기어가기. (various references)

Manx

snaue (bathing, course, crawling, creep, creep as child, creeping, float, floating, flotation, glide, gliding, in suspension, scuttle; track of snail; swimming, scuttle; track; swimming, sidle, slither, slithering, swim). (various references)

Papiamen

gatia (creep). (various references)

Pig Latin

awlcray

Portuguese

rastejar (creep, crouch, grovel, trail, worm), rastejamento (creep). (various references)

Romanian

craul, târâre (creep), se târî (creep, drag, grovel, jog along, jog on, plod, slither, toil, trail), se linguşi (fawn, jolly, palaver, slaver, spaniel, toady), se furişa (creep, filter, mouse about, slink, slip, sneak, steal, wriggle), se înfiora (creep, flicker, flinch, shudder, startle), merge încet (jog, jog along, jog on, wend), mãguli (flatter, soothe, tickle). (various references)

Russian 

расползаться (crawl away), тащиться (drag, draw, plod, traipse, trapse, trudge), кроль, кишеть насекомыми, кишеть (be infested, infest, overrun, pullulate, teem), затон (backwater), пресмыкательство, ползти (worm), ползать (creep, crept), ползание, плыть кролем. (various references)

Scottish

cr� laidh, sn� ig (creep, sneak), sn� g (sneak), m� gair (creep, handle clumsily, paw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

puziti (creep), puzati (cringe, grovel), puzanje, mileti (creep), kraul, bauljati (grabble). (various references)

Spanish

arrastrarse (creep, grovel, haul, lug, pull oneself along, trail, tug, worm). (various references)

Swedish

krypa (creep, cringe, fawn, grovel, huddle, kotow, kowtow, trail), kräla (creep, grovel), kravla (clamber, grabble, scramble). (various references)

Turkish

yavaş ilerlemek, yavaş ilerleme, yağ yapmak, sürünmek (creep, drag, grovel, languish, rough it, trail), krol yüzmek, krol yüzme, kaynıyor olmak, karıncalanmak (feel benumbed, formicate, go to sleep, have pins and needles, prickle, tingle), emeklemek (crawl on all fours, creep), dolu olmak (abound, be filled with, be full, bristle, spill over with, teem), ağır gidiş. (various references)

Turkmen 

sьяrenmek (be at the end, creep), яorelmek (creep), emedeklemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

тягтися (drag, plod, tower, trail), кроль, кишіти комахами, волочитися, низькопоклонство (adulation, grovel), підлабузнюватися (adulate), повільний рух (creep, drag), повзати (creep), повзання (crawling), плазувати (adulate, back-scratch, creep, grovel, truckle), плазування (adulation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chỗ nuôi tôm sự bò, ao nuôi cá chỗ nuôi rùa. (various references)

Welsh

cropian (creep, grope), ymlusgo (creep), llusgo (drag, drawl, trail). (various references)

correpti, correptum, correptus, repente, repere, repo, repo repsi reptum, repo, repsi, reptum, repsi, serpens, serpente, serpentem, serpentes, serpenti, serpentia, serpentibus, serpentis, serpentium, serpere, serpit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crawl": crawled, crawler, crawlers, crawlier, crawliest, crawling, crawls, crawlspace, crawlspaces, crawlway, crawlways, crawly. (additional references)

Words ending with "crawl": becrawl, outcrawl, scrawl. (additional references)

Words containing "crawl": becrawled, becrawling, becrawls, outcrawled, outcrawling, outcrawls, scrawled, scrawler, scrawlers, scrawlier, scrawliest, scrawling, scrawls, scrawly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crawl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrawl, cawl, Cawla, Cawle, chawl, Chawla, craal, cradl, cral, Crall, crauw, crawd, Crawle, crawp, crewp, cril, criw, croawl, crowl, grawl, Mcgrail, Rawl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carl, claw, craw.

-2 letters: arc, awl, car, caw, lac, lar, law, raw, war.

-3 letters: al, ar, aw, la.

+1 letter: clawer, crawls, crawly, scrawl.

+2 letters: becrawl, clawers, crawled, crawler, scrawls, scrawly, warlock.

+3 letters: becrawls, callower, clamworm, clayware, cowardly, crawlers, crawlier, crawling, crawlway, lacework, outcrawl, scrawled, scrawler, warlocks, wrackful.

+4 letters: becrawled, cartwheel, caterwaul, clamworms, claywares, clearwing, crawliest, crawlways, crosswalk, flowchart, laceworks, leadscrew, lowercase, outcrawls, scrawlers, scrawlier, scrawling, screwball, workplace.

+5 letters: backwardly, becrawling, blackwater, cakewalker, cartwheels, caterwauls, clawhammer, clearwings, crawlspace, crosswalks, flowcharts, lawrencium, leadscrews, lowercased, lowercases, outcrawled, racewalker, scrawliest, screwballs, watercolor, wheelchair, wildcatter, workaholic, workplaces.