crawl
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) enPR: krôl, IPA: /kɹɔːl/
- (America) enPR: krôl, IPA: /kɹɔl/
- (cot-caught) enPR: kräl, IPA: /kɹɑl/
crawl (crawls, present participle crawling; past and past participle crawled)
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
- Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up. An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer; one. Hath crawled into the favour of the king
- (intransitive, with "with") See crawl with.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarm#Verb|swarming sensation.
- The horrible sight made my skin crawl.
- (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.
- (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.
- The baby crawled the entire second floor.
- (intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.
- They crawled the downtown bars.
- (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficiently.
- French: ramper
- German: kriechen, krabbeln
- Italian: strisciare, gattonare
- Portuguese: engatinhar (on hands and knees), rastejar (dragging body along the ground), reptar
- Russian: по́лзать
- Spanish: arrastrarse (general), reptar, rampar (stealthily), gatear (like a baby or toddler)
- French: avancer au pas
- German: kriechen
- Portuguese: lesmar
- Russian: ползти́
- Spanish: ir a paso de tortuga
- French: s'aplatir devant, s'aplatir
- Portuguese: rastejar
- Russian: лебези́ть
- Spanish: humillarse, humillarse ante, arrastrar
- French: grouiller de, grouiller
- German: wimmeln
- Italian: brulicare
- Russian: кише́ть
- Spanish: estar de cuajado, estar cuajado
- French: avoir la chair de poule
- German: krabbeln
- Portuguese: formigar
- Russian: мурашка
- French: faire le crawl
- German: kraulen
- Italian: nuotare a crawl
- Russian: плыть кроль
crawl (plural crawls)
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (figurative) A very slow pace.
- My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
- The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
- German: Schneckentempo
- Portuguese: rastejo
- Russian: по́лзание
crawl (plural crawls)
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