crawls
Meaning of crawls
verb, 3rd person present
- move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.
they crawled from under the table
- behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favour.
a reporter's job can involve crawling to objectionable people
- be covered or crowded with (insects or people), to an extent that is objectionable.
the floor was dirty and crawling with bugs
- (of a program) systematically visit (a number of web pages) in order to create an index of data.
its automated software robots crawl websites, grabbing copies of pages to index
Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle .
Information about crawls
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of crawls is: crawl.
- Languages in which crawls is used:
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Hyphenation of crawls
crawls
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- crawls is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
crawls synonyms
Meaning move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed:
Meaning move along slowly and carefully:
Meaning (of time) pass slowly and tediously:
Meaning (typically of a plant) grow or hang over the edge of something or along the ground:
Meaning slide or slip unsteadily on a loose or slippery surface:
Meaning move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner:
Meaning wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort:
Meaning twist and turn with quick writhing movements:
Meaning make twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body:
Meaning scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something:
Meaning move or go in a furtive or stealthy way:
Meaning prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening:
Meaning coax (someone) with kind words or flattery:
Anagrams of crawls
Words that rhyme with crawls
awls, bawls, outbawls, bradawls, shawls, pawls, spawls, becrawls, bescrawls, brawls, drawls, grawls, outbrawls, outcrawls, scrawls, sprawls, trawls, wrawls, wawls, yawls
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