Definitions for crawl
Overview of noun crawl
The noun crawl has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) crawl
(a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl")
2. crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl
(a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick)
3. crawl, crawling, creep, creeping
(a slow 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")
Overview of verb crawl
The verb crawl has 5 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (32) crawl, creep
(move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")
2. (1) crawl
(feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled
3. crawl
(be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots")
4. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
(show submission or fear)
5. crawl
(swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl")
