 crawling |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] used of traffic | |
| Synonyms: | bumper-to-bumper | |
| Examples: | "bumper-to-bumper traffic" |
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| Related terms: | slow | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground | |
| Synonyms: | creeping | |
| Examples: | "a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles" "a creeping tractor" |
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| Related terms: | moving | |
| 3. | [ noun ] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body) | |
| Synonyms: | creep creeping crawl | |
| Examples: | "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage" "the traffic moved at a creep" |
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| Related terms: | locomotion crawl | |
| Similar spelling: |
crawl_in |
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