Synonyms for crawl
Definitions
- v. 1
To advance by guile and servility; to act in a servile manner, trying to please someone in order to gain favor.
Don’t come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
- v. 2
To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
Related words
- Word family
- crawler
- Phrases
- front crawl crawl with news crawl back crawl high crawl leopard crawl pub crawl zombie crawl
Forms
- Past participle
- crawled
e.g. crawled → crept, cowered, cringed, fawned…
Example sentences
- creep You scared me! Don't creep up on people like that.
- cringe I may be cringe, but you're mean, and that's worse.
- cower The noise caused Lorenzo to cower in fear.
- wriggle Try to wriggle your way out of this one.
By length
- 4 letters
- inch1, fawn1, plod1
- 5 letters
- creep1, cower2
- 6 letters
- cringe1, grovel2, kowtow2
- 7 letters
- wriggle2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cower2 = 2 syllables).
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