crawl

crawl is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
2. intransitive verb. to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
3. intransitive verb. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
4. intransitive verb. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
5. noun. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
6. noun. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
7. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping

8. noun. a very slow movement

   "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

9. noun. a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
10. verb. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

    "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

    Synonyms: creep

11. verb. swim by doing the crawl

    "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

12. verb. show submission or fear

    Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel

13. verb. be full of

    "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

14. verb. feel as if crawling with insects

    "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

Synonyms

crawling, creep, creeping, cower, cringe, fawn, grovel

Common word forms

crawls, crawled, crawler, crawling

Words from these letters

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