Word Meaning

crawl definition and meaning

v. i. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
v. i. to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
v. i. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
v. i. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
n. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

Crossword clues for crawl

- Act servilely
- Behave abjectly when scrawling contents
- Bow and scrape
- Creep
- Go slowly
- Grovel
- Grovel? That’s how baby gets along
- How do babies get around? They grovel!
- Move like a baby
- Move on hands and knees
- Move slowly
- Progress slowly
- Progress very slowly
- Suck up (to)
- Swimming stroke