| 单词 | crawl |
| 释义 | crawl (once / 284 pages) 1vn 2v 3v 4nv 5v To crawl is to move slowly across the floor on your hands and knees. Before they learn to walk, most babies crawl. You might crawl around looking for a lost earring, or watch a spider crawl across your ceiling. The slow, creeping movement itself is a crawl, too: "Traffic was moving at a crawl." When your dog has fleas, he crawls with them, and if something gives you a creepy, prickling sensation, it makes your skin crawl. Crawl probably comes from the Old Norse krafla, "to claw one's way," which shares a root with crab. WORD FAMILYcrawl: crawled, crawler, crawling, crawls+/crawler: crawlers/crawling: crawlings USAGE EXAMPLESCulture crawl I would, at breakneck pace, through an only-in-Manhattan New Year’s Eve, to show last year the door. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) As an infant, Blake reached developmental milestones, learning to roll over, sit up and crawl at all the right times. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Laundromat owner Rhonda Emerson says the thieves kicked a hole in the wall underneath the change machine and crawled into the locked office. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1v move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed Syn|Hypo|Hyper creep formicate crawl about like ants go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2n a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body a crawl was all that the injured man could manage Syn|Hyper crawling, creep, creeping locomotion, travel self-propelled movement 3n a very slow movement 2the traffic advanced at a crawl Hyper motion, move, movement the act of changing location from one place to another v feel as if crawling with insects 3My skin crawled--I was terrified Hyper feel be felt or perceived in a certain way v show submission or fear 4Syn|Hyper cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel bend, flex form a curve 1n a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick Syn|Hyper Australian crawl, front crawl swimming stroke a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward 2v swim by doing the crawl 5they often don't know how to crawl Hyper swim travel through water v be full of The old cheese was crawling with maggots Hyper pullulate, swarm, teem be teeming, be abuzz |
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