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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
crawl
    n 1: a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
    2: a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead
       accompanied by a flutter kick [syn: crawl, front crawl,
       Australian crawl]
    3: 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" [syn: crawl, crawling,
       creep, creeping]
    v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body
         near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the
         riverbed" [syn: crawl, creep]
    2: feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was
       terrified"
    3: be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
    4: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep,
       cringe, cower, grovel]
    5: swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast
       stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crawl \Crawl\ (kr?l), n.
   The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping
   animal.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crawl \Crawl\, n. [Cf. Kraal.]
   A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for
   holding fish.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled
   (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or
   Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
   kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
   scratch.]
   1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
      worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
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            A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
            as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
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   2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
      manner.
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            He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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            The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
                                                  --Byron.
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   3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
      to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
      conduct.
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            Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
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            Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
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            Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
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   4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
      as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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Thesaurus Results for crawl:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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