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English to English noun
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a very slow movement |  | Example: the traffic advanced at a crawl
source: wordnet30
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a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | | source: wordnet30
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a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | | Example: a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
the traffic moved at a creep
source: wordnet30
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The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. | | source: webster1913
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A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. | | source: webster1913
verb
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move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | | Example: The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
source: wordnet30
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feel as if crawling with insects | | Example: My skin crawled--I was terrified
source: wordnet30
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be full of | | Example: The old cheese was crawling with maggots
source: wordnet30
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show submission or fear | | source: wordnet30
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swim by doing the crawl | | Example: European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl
source: wordnet30
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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. | | source: webster1913
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