Antonyms for crawl
krɔlcrawl

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1. crawlnoun

   a very slow movement

   "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

   Synonyms:
   crawling, front crawl, creep, creeping

2. crawl, front crawl, Australian crawlnoun

   a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

   Synonyms:
   crawling, front crawl, creep, creeping

3. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingverb

   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:
   creep, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook, creeping

4. crawl, creepverb

   move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

   Synonyms:
   pussyfoot, creep, mouse, sneak, fawn, grovel, cower, cringe

5. crawlverb

   feel as if crawling with insects

   "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cower, creep, cringe, grovel

6. crawlverb

   be full of

   "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cower, creep, cringe, grovel

7. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   cower, sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

8. crawlverb

   swim by doing the crawl

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

   Synonyms:
   fawn, cower, creep, cringe, grovel

How to use crawl in a sentence?

1. Van Doormaal:

   We noticed an immediate difference. The biggest changes are her head control, really quickly after the treatment she was able to hold her head up which is something she's never done before. She can sit with some support and hopefully one day she'll crawl, maybe one day she'll even walk. That's really an optimistic dream, I know, but we like to have high expectations and we don't want to hold her back.

2. Montana Department of Fish:

   When the bear let go, the teen fell over and attempted to crawl between two trees and protect his head and vitals. The bear then pinned him face-down on the ground.

3. Jean Baudrillard:

   A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

4. Potter Steve Harrison:

   The day before I had actually built myself a small kiln down the back — a coffin-sized kiln — just big enough for me to crawl inside, i could have (died) if I hadn't thought about plan B. In that little kiln enclosure I made, I had a fire extinguisher, a bucket of water, a drinking water bottle and a fire blanket.

5. Albert P. Ryder:

   Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

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