transcription, транскрипция: [ krɔ:l ]
( crawls, crawling, crawled)
1.
When you crawl , you move forward on your hands and knees.
Don’t worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk...
I began to crawl on my hands and knees towards the door...
As he tried to crawl away, he was hit in the shoulder.
VERB : V , V prep / adv , V prep / adv
2.
When an insect crawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly.
I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade.
VERB : V prep
3.
If someone or something crawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty.
I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty...
Hairpin turns force the car to crawl at 10 miles an hour in some places.
VERB : V prep / adv , V
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Crawl is also a noun.
The traffic on the approach road slowed to a crawl.
N-SING : a N
4.
If you say that a place is crawling with people or animals, you are emphasizing that it is full of them. ( INFORMAL )
This place is crawling with police.
VERB : only cont , V with n [ emphasis ]
5.
The crawl is a kind of swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, swinging one arm over your head, and then the other arm.
N-SING : the N
6.
If something makes your skin crawl or makes your flesh crawl , it makes you feel shocked or disgusted.
I hated this man, his very touch made my skin crawl.
PHRASE : V inflects
7.
see also kerb-crawling , pub crawl