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Noun crawl has 3 senses

crawl - a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
--₁ is a kind of motion, movement, move

Derived form: verb crawl₁
crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl - a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
--₂ is a kind of swimming stroke
--₂ has parts: flutter kick
Derived form: verb crawl₅
crawl, crawling, creep, creeping - a slow creeping 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"
--₃ is a kind of locomotion, travel

Derived form: verb crawl₁

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"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived forms: noun crawl₃, noun crawl₁, noun crawler₂, noun crawler₃, noun crawling₁
Sample sentences:
The streets crawl with crowds
The streets crawl with crowds
crawl - feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
--₂ is one way to feel
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
crawl - be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
--₃ is one way to teem, pullulate, swarm
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel - show submission or fear
--₄ is one way to bend, flex

Derived form: noun crawler₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
crawl - swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
--₅ is one way to swim

Derived form: noun crawl₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s