Definition of Crawl

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Definition of Crawl

Crawl

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

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Crawl Quotations

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mohandas Gandhi

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Henry Rollins

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Tori Amos

Crawl Translations

crawl in Afrikaans is kruip
crawl in Danish is krybe
crawl in Dutch is kruipen
crawl in French is ramper
crawl in German is kraule, kriechen
crawl in Latin is repo repsi reptum
crawl in Portuguese is rastejamento
crawl in Spanish is arrastrarse

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