Meaning

6 senses
  1. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.

    a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

  2. The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).

  3. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.

    Kraul

    крольkrolʹ

    a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

  4. (figuratively)A very slow pace.

    My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.

    Schneckentempo

    a very slow movement

  5. A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

  6. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

Examples

355 sentences
  1. I felt something crawling up my arm.

    Я відчув, що щось повзе мені вверх по руці. — aandrusiak

    deIch fühlte, wie etwas meinen Arm hinaufkroch. — xtofu80

  2. Tom felt something crawling on his arm.

    Том відчув, як щось повзе по його руці. — El_lena

    ruТом почувствовал, как что-то ползёт по его руке. — odexed

  3. Tom cut a hole in the fence and crawled through.

    Том зробив дірку у паркані та проліз крізь неї. — deniko

  4. That hut is crawling with lizards and insects.

    Та хижа кишить ящірками і комахами. — ChickenKiev

    deIn der Hütte wimmelt es von Eidechsen und Insekten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Don't try to walk before you can crawl.

    Всьому свій час. — Ahha · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
swimming stroke:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
swimming stroke:
a very slow pace:

Origin

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also Saterland Frisian krauelje (“to crawl, scuttle”), West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

Compare kraal.

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Forms

plural: crawls
Singularcrawl
Pluralcrawls

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

18 related words

Collocations

8 patterns
  • crawled into bed
  • felt something crawling
  • crawled under the
  • crawled under
  • crawled through
  • crawled out of
  • something crawling
  • was crawling with

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crawl — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto