Synonyms for crawl
krɔlcrawl

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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, 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:
   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:
   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, 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. Adiel Kiviti:

   We are tremendously relieved that the court recognized what we always knew : that our daughter was United States by birth, we are proud we taught our little girl to stand up for what's right even before she could crawl. No child should be denied her rights because her parents are LGBT, and no family should have to endure the indignity we did.

2. Van Doormaal:

   We noticed an immediate difference. The biggest changes are her head control, really quickly after the treatment she was able to hold her head up which is something she's never done before. She can sit with some support and hopefully one day she'll crawl, maybe one day she'll even walk. That's really an optimistic dream, I know, but we like to have high expectations and we don't want to hold her back.

3. Kenneth Kaitin:

   Scott Gottlieb have to plan these activities in advance because Scott Gottlieb don't just suddenly have a building that's making drugs, when this shutdown ever ends, there's going to be, I think, a formidable backlog of applications that's going to slow everything down to a crawl for a while.

4. George Takei:

   There were 6.5 acres covered with barracks, barbwire fence, sentry towers -- I recognize them, i remembered a stray dog that we adopted who would crawl into the crawl space and peer out from under it. Or the mess hall and the noise and the laughter and so forth.

5. John Thurman:

   I tried to get to some of my colleagues that I knew were in the room, we were at that point of having to crawl on the floor and because it was now full of smoke, very hot air. You took your face off the floor and you couldn't breathe.