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crawl

English

  1. 🔊 a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
    “a crawl was all that the injured man could manage”
  2. 🔊 a very slow movement
    “the traffic advanced at a crawl”
  3. 🔊 a swimming stroke
  4. 🔊 move slowly
    “The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed”
  5. 🔊 swim by doing the crawl
    “European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl”
  6. 🔊 be full of
    “The old cheese was crawling with maggots”
  7. 🔊 feel as if crawling with insects
    “My skin crawled--I was terrified”
  8. 🔊 show submission or fear

Spanish

  1. 🔊 arrastrar to crawl, to creep, to drag oneself

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