Synonyms for Crawl
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1. crawlnoun

   a very slow movement

   "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

   Synonyms:
   crawling, front crawl, creep, creeping

2. crawl, front crawl, Australian crawlnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   crawling, front crawl, creep, crawl, creeping

3. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingverb

   a slow 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"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, creep, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook, creeping

4. crawl, creepverb

   move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, pussyfoot, creep, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringe

5. crawlverb

   feel as if crawling with insects

   "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cower, creep, cringe, grovel

6. crawlverb

   be full of

   "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cower, creep, cringe, grovel

7. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   cower, sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

8. crawlverb

   swim by doing the crawl

   "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cower, creep, cringe, grovel

Matched Categories

1. • Aquatics
   • Feel
   • Motion
   • Move
   • Swarm
   • Swim

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1. chyron

   Submitted by anonymous on March 29, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crawlverb

   Synonyms:
   creep

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "crawl":

   grovel, slither, ramp, fawn, tracing

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How to use Crawl in a sentence?

1. John Bodrozic:

   If this happens, you end up spending more on utility costs because the air you’re paying to heat or cool is escaping from the loose ductwork into the attic or crawl space, not into your living space.

2. Joe Biden:

   People can start to finally crawl out from under that mountain of debt to get on top of their rent and their utilities, to finally think about buying a home or starting a family or starting a business.

3. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk ,then crawl but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward

4. Mickey Mehta:

   Whenever you do begin to love someone open up and flow, speak your heart and let the person know, because it's about exchange of feeling even if one is uptight and the other is kneeling, don't crawl, jump hit the ceiling. Don't think simply link, acknowledge & look into the eyes, smile at your lover and MickeyMize.

5. Jean Baudrillard:

   A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.