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Definition of Crawl

Crawl To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. Related Definitions: Act, Advance, Along, And, Animal, As, Body, By, Conduct, Crawling, Creep, Creeping, Drawing, Feeble, Fish, Flesh, For, Furtively, Gain, Ground, Have, Holding, In, Inclosure, Influence, Insect, Insinuate, Manner, Motion, Move, Obsequious, Of, On, One, Or, Over, Pen, Seacoast, See, Self, Sensation, Servile, Slow, Slowly, The, Timorous, To, Worm

Crawl Quotations Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Quentin Crisp Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. Mohandas Gandhi Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. Tori Amos

Crawl Translations crawl in Afrikaans is kruip crawl in Danish is krybe crawl in Dutch is kruipen crawl in French is ramper crawl in German is kraule, kriechen crawl in Latin is repo repsi reptum crawl in Portuguese is rastejamento crawl in Spanish is arrastrarse

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