crawl🔊

To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.

To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty (for example due to feebleness) or frequent stops.

To advance by guile and servility; to act in a servile manner, trying to please someone in order to gain favor. +

To spread by extending tendrils, stems, or branches; to creep or trail (as a vine).

To swim using the crawl stroke.

''Followed by'' with: ''see'' crawl with.

To feel a swarming sensation; to have a sensation like that produced by insects crawling over one's body.

(of paint or varnish, ceramic glaze, etc) To spread unevenly; to fail to be or remain evenly spread.

To move over (an area) on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along.

To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.

(internet) To visit (files or web sites) in order to index them for searching.

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

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

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

(figurative) A very slow pace.

(film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

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