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1. Oxford Dictionary

   crawl

   • IPA[krɔːl]

   英式

   • v.
     move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground；(of an insect or small animal) move slowly along a surface
   • n.
     an act of moving on one's hands and knees or dragging one's body along the ground；a slow rate of movement, typically that of a vehicle

   • verb: crawl, 3rd person present: crawls, gerund or present participle: crawling, past tense: crawled, past participle: crawled

   • noun: crawl

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground they crawled from under the table 同義詞 creep, go on all fours, move on hands and knees, inch, drag oneself along, ... 更多pull oneself along, drag, trail, slither, slink, squirm, wriggle, writhe, scrabble, worm one's way, advance slowly/stealthily, sneak
   • ▪ (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 favour a reporter's job can involve crawling to objectionable people 同義詞 grovel to, be obsequious towards, ingratiate oneself with, be servile towards, be sycophantic towards, ... 更多kowtow to, pander to, abase oneself to, demean oneself to, bow and scrape to, prostrate oneself before, toady to, truckle to, dance attendance on, fawn on/over, curry favour with, cultivate, seek the favour of, try to win over, try to get on the good side of, make up to, play up to, informalsuck up to, lick someone's boots, creep to, be all over, fall all over, rub up the right way, keep someone sweet, sweet-talk, soft-soap, brown-nose, butter up, twist someone's arm, vulgar slanglick/kiss someone's arse, lick/kiss someone's ass, archaicblandish
   • 3. be covered or crowded with (insects or people), to an extent that is objectionable the floor was dirty and crawling with bugs 同義詞 be full of, overflow with, teem with, abound in/with, be packed with, ... 更多be crowded with, be thronged with, be jammed with, be alive with, be overrun with, swarm with, be bristling with, be infested with, be thick with, informalbe lousy with, be stuffed with, be jam-packed with, be chock-a-block with, be chock-full of, be heaving with, rarepullulate with
   • 4. (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

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an act of moving on one's hands and knees or dragging one's body along the ground they began the crawl back to their own lines
   • ▪ a slow rate of movement, typically that of a vehicle he reduced his speed to a crawl
   • 2. a swimming stroke involving alternate overarm movements and rapid kicks of the legs she could do the crawl and so many other strokes

   片語

   • make someone's skin crawl