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