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

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1. chyron

   Submitted by anonymous on March 29, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. crawlverb

   Synonyms:
   creep

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1. List of paraphrases for "crawl":

   grovel, slither, ramp, fawn, tracing

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How to use crawl in a sentence?

1. Matshona Dhliwayo:

   An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.

2. Joe Pawlak:

   Year-over-year, it was a very small crawl, we're talking about tenths of a point a year.

3. Albert P. Ryder:

   Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

4. Later McHenry:

   I wouldn't work at a scumbag place like this. Makes my skin crawl even being here.

5. Matshona Dhliwayo:

   One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.