Noun

• S: (n) crawl (crawl%1:04:03::) (a very slow movement) "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
• S: (n) crawl (crawl%1:04:02::), front crawl (front_crawl%1:04:00::), Australian crawl (australian_crawl%1:04:00::) (a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick)
• S: (n) crawl (crawl%1:04:01::), crawling (crawling%1:04:00::), creep (creep%1:04:00::), creeping (creeping%1:04:00::) (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"

Verb

• S: (v) crawl (crawl%2:38:00::), creep (creep%2:38:00::) (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground) "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
• S: (v) crawl (crawl%2:42:01::) (feel as if crawling with insects) "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
• S: (v) crawl (crawl%2:42:00::) (be full of) "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
• S: (v) fawn (fawn%2:38:00::), crawl (crawl%2:38:03::), creep (creep%2:38:07::), cringe (cringe%2:38:00::), cower (cower%2:38:00::), grovel (grovel%2:38:00::) (show submission or fear)
• S: (v) crawl (crawl%2:38:01::) (swim by doing the crawl) "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"