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crawl
What does crawl mean?
crawl (verb): to move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use crawl in a sentence?
- The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce crawl?
/kɹɔl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does crawl come from?
From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of crawl?
Words related to crawl
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “crawl” mean?
to move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby
Right! That's what “crawl” means.
to make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance
Not quite: that's what crow means.
to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to
Not quite: that's what incur means.
to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself
Not quite: that's what brag means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “crawl”?
leave
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creep
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thank
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start
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