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    crawl
    [krôl]
    verb
    crawling (present participle)
    1. (of a person) move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground:
      "they crawled out from under the table"
      • (of an insect or small animal) move slowly along a surface:
        "the tiny spider was crawling up Nicky's arm"
      • (of a vehicle) move at an unusually slow pace:
        "the traffic was crawling along"
      • swim using the crawl:
        "I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end"
      • technical
        (of paint or other liquid) move after application to form an uneven layer over the surface below:
        "glazes can crawl away from a crack in the piece"
    2. informal
      behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favor:
      "don't come crawling back to me later when you realize your mistake"
    3. (be crawling with)
      be covered or crowded with insects or people, to an extent that is disgusting or objectionable:
      "the place was crawling with soldiers"
    4. computing
      (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"
    Origin
    Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle.
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    verb
    1. (of a person) move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground:
      go on all fours
      move on hands and knees
      drag oneself along
      pull oneself along
      worm one's way
      advance slowly/stealthily
      • behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favor:
        grovel to
        be obsequious toward
        ingratiate oneself with
        be servile toward
        be sycophantic toward
        kowtow to
        pander to
        abase oneself to
        demean oneself to
        bow and scrape to
        prostrate oneself before
        toady to
        truckle to
        fawn on/over
        curry favor with
        seek the favor of
        try to win over
        try to get on the good side of
      • be covered or crowded with insects or people, to an extent that is disgusting or objectionable:
        be full of
        overflow with
        teem with
        abound in/with
        be packed with
        be crowded with
        be thronged with
        be jammed with
        be alive with
        be overrun with
        be bristling with
        be infested with
        be thick with
        pullulate with
       
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