crawl, v.
(crawled, crawling, crawls)
freq. cnt. 33
(crawled, crawling, crawls)
freq. cnt. 33
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
<verb.motion> freq. cnt.: 43 freq. cnt.: 32 freq. cnt.: 11
crawl creep
sample sentences
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"verb frames
Something ----sSomebody ----s PP
The streets %s with crowds
verb frames
Something ----sSomebody ----s PP
The crowds %s in the streets
The streets %s with crowds
feel as if crawling with insects
<verb.stative> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
crawl
sample sentences
"My skin crawled--I was terrified"verb frames
Something ----s
semantic pointers
hypernym
swim by doing the crawl
<verb.motion>
crawl
sample sentences
"European children learn the breast strokethey often don't know how to crawl"
verb frames
Somebody ----s
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
show submission or fear
<verb.motion> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
cower crawl creep cringe fawn grovel
verb frames
Somebody ----s PPverb frames
Somebody ----s PPverb frames
Somebody ----s PPverb frames
Somebody ----s PPverb frames
Somebody ----s PPverb frames
Somebody ----s PP
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
be full of
<verb.stative>
crawl
sample sentences
"The old cheese was crawling with maggots"verb frames
Something is ----ing PP
semantic pointers
hypernym