Synonyms for crawl
krɔlcrawl

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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, 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

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

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. Zora Neale Hurston:

   Love makes your soul crawl out of it's hiding place

2. Shannan Maxwell:

   It is tough to go out into public, when he's having a meltdown on the floor and the whole entire store's looking at you like you're a bad mom, you just want to go and crawl under a rock.

3. 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.

4. D. H. Lawrence:

   We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

5. Joe DellaVedova:

   We take a crawl, walk, run approach to weapons testing where we will begin by putting a weapon in a weapons bay and dropping it on land onto some padding. Then, they will test the weapon flying to see if it releases and drops safely. Then you connect to the last stage and test whether the weapon can find the target.