Englishئاساسىي لۇغەت
crawl
Universal Words
verb, noun
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.]
1 to move forward on your hands and knees, with your body close to the ground:
Our baby is just starting to crawl. * A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage. * She crawled under the fence.
2 when an insect crawls, it moves forward on its legs:
There's a spider crawling up your leg.
3 to move forward very slowly:
The traffic was crawling along. * The weeks crawled by.
4 ~ (to sb) (informal, disapproving) to be too friendly or helpful to sb in authority, in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them:
She's always crawling to the boss.
IDIOMS see SKINn., WOODWORK
PHRASALVERBS
be crawling with sth (informal) to be full of or completely covered with people, insects or animals, in a way that is unpleasant:
The place was crawling with journalists. * Her hair was crawling with lice.
noun
1 [sing.] a very slow speed:
The traffic slowed to a crawl.
seealsoPUBCRAWL
2 (often the crawl) [sing.,U] a fast swimming stroke that you do lying on your front moving one arm over your head, and then the other, while kicking with your feet:
a swimmer doing the crawl * He struck out across the pool in a powerful crawl.
