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crawl /ˈkrɔl/
爬行;緩慢的行進(vi.)爬行,蠕動;徐徐行進
Crawl v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
He was hardly able to crawl about the room. --Arbuthnot.
The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. --Byron.
3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
Crawl n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
Crawl, n. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
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crawl
n 1: a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
2: a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead
accompanied by a flutter kick [syn: front crawl, Australian
crawl]
3: a slow creeping 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" [syn: crawling,
creep, creeping]
v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body
near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the
riverbed" [syn: creep]
2: feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was
terrified"
3: be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
4: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, creep, cringe, cower,
grovel]
5: swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast
stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"