SkyfireDict

crawling   (TTS Sound)

The noun crawling has 1 sense

• crawl, crawling, creep, creeping -- (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")

The verb crawl has 5 senses

• crawl, creep -- (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")


• crawl -- (feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified")


• crawl -- (be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots")


• fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel -- (show submission or fear)


• crawl -- (swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl")