| 释义 |
Verb: crawl krol- Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
- creep - Feel as if crawling with insects
"My skin crawled--I was terrified" - Be full of
"The old cheese was crawling with maggots" - Show submission or fear
- fawn, creep, cringe, cower, grovel - Swim by doing the crawl
"European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
Noun: crawl krol- A very slow movement
"the traffic advanced at a crawl" - A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
- front crawl, Australian crawl - A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
"a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"
- crawling, creep, creeping
Derived forms: crawled, crawls, crawling See also: crawler Type of: bend, feel, flex, go, locomote, locomotion, motion, move, movement, pullulate, swarm, swim, swimming stroke, teem, travel Encyclopedia: Crawl |