Definitions for crawl
krɔlcrawl

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. crawl(noun)

   a very slow movement

   "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

2. crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl(noun)

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

3. crawl, crawling, creep, creeping(verb)

   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"

4. crawl, creep(verb)

   move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

5. crawl(verb)

   feel as if crawling with insects

   "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

6. crawl(verb)

   be full of

   "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

7. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel(verb)

   show submission or fear

8. crawl(verb)

   swim by doing the crawl

   "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. crawl(Noun)

   The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

2. crawl(Noun)

   A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

3. crawl(Noun)

   A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

4. crawl(Verb)

   To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

   Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

5. crawl(Verb)

   To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

   The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

6. crawl(Verb)

   To act in a servile manner.

   Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

7. crawl(Verb)

   See crawl with.

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

8. crawl(Verb)

   To feel a swarming sensation.

   The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

9. crawl(Verb)

   To swim using the crawl stroke.

   I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.

   Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

10. crawl(Verb)

    To move over an area on hands and knees.

    The baby crawled the entire second floor.

    Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

11. crawl(Verb)

    To visit while becoming inebriated.

    They crawled the downtown bars.

    Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

12. crawl(Verb)

    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 efficient.

    Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German , Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crawl(verb)

   to move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep

   Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

2. Crawl(verb)

   to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner

   Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

3. Crawl(verb)

   to advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct

   Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

4. Crawl(verb)

   to have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7

   Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

5. Crawl(noun)

   the act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal

   Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

6. Crawl(noun)

   a pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish

   Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

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1. Crawl

   "Crawl" is the first single from New Zealand rock band Atlas released in 2007. It was featured on their debut album Reasons for Voyaging. It is one of the most successful New Zealand rock songs of the 21st century, staying atop the charts for seven weeks.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crawl

   krawl, v.i. to move slowly along the ground, as a worm: to creep: to move feebly, stealthily, or sneakingly: to be covered with crawling things.—n. the act of crawling.—ns. Crawl′er, one who or that which crawls: a reptile; Crawl′ing.—adv. Crawl′y (coll.), with a creepy feeling. [Scand.; Ice. krafla, Dan. kravle; Ger. krabbeln, to creep.]

2. Crawl

   krawl, n. a pen for keeping fish: a kraal.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. crawl

   A sort of pen, formed by a barrier of stakes and hurdles on the sea-coast, to contain fish or turtle. On the coast of Africa, a pen for slaves awaiting shipment.

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crawl' in Verbs Frequency: #1016

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crawl in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crawl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of crawl in a Sentence

1. Ryan Reynolds:

   Laughing can serve you in the dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out. -Ryan Reynolds

2. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!

3. Professor Auke Ijspeert:

   We're now making an amphibious robot that will have the same swimming and walking properties, but will be a bit more sturdy, here clearly there's a big interest of having a robot that can crawl, go through small spaces, can swim a bit. And if you have a collapsed building; you think there are survivors, you will not send a dog because maybe the building is too dangerous. It may be very interesting to have an amphibious robot that you remote control; see if there are survivors and decide then if it's worth sending a team or not.

4. Martin Weiss:

   Lets not forget that it takes time to get mainstream investors back and attract institutions. That trend is now in place, bitcoin can gradually crawl back to its all-time highs over several years, but hopefully it doesn't happen too quickly. If it does, investors could get burned again.

5. Actress Sharon Stone:

   I thought,' You know what ? I got thrown off the bullet train, and now I'm going to have to crawl up a hill of broken glass, get back on the train that's going a million miles an hour, and work my way from the cattle car up, that's just the way it is, so I'd better get humble and shut the f -- k up and do the job. Because if I can't do this job, I'm certainly not going to be able to do anything else.'.

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