Tra từ crawl - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

crawl [crawl crawls crawled crawling] verb, noun BrE [krɔːl] NAmE [krɔːl]
verb
1. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to move forward on your hands and knees, with your body close to the ground
•Our baby is just starting to crawl.
•A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
•She crawled under the fence.
2. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) when an insect crawls, it moves forward on its legs
•There's a spider crawling up your leg.
3. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to move forward very slowly
•The traffic was crawling along.
•The weeks crawled by.
4. intransitive ~ (to sb) (informal, disapproving)to be too friendly or helpful to sb in authority, in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them
•She's always crawling to the boss.
see make your skin crawl at ↑skin _n., come/crawl out of the woodwork at ↑woodwork
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle.

Example Bank:
•As night fell, we managed to crawl back to our lines.
•Has the baby started to crawl yet?
•There's an insect crawling up your leg!
•We spent an hour crawling around on our hands and knees looking for the key.
•She was forced to crawl along through the thickening mist.
•The taxi crawled to a halt.
•The traffic was crawling as I left the city.
Derived: ↑crawling with something

noun

1. singular a very slow speed
•The traffic slowed to a crawl.
see also ↑pub crawl
2. (often the crawl)singular, uncountable a fast swimming stroke that you do lying on your front moving one arm over your head, and then the other, while kicking with your feet
•a swimmer doing the crawl
•He struck out across the pool in a powerful crawl.

Word Origin:
Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle.

Example Bank:
•The traffic was moving at a slow crawl.
•Westbound traffic was down to a crawl.