Crossword clues for crawled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]
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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
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Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
--Arbuthnot.The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
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To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Secretly crawling up the battered walls.
--Knolles.Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
--Shak.Absurd opinions crawl about the world.
--South. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: crawl)
Usage examples of "crawled".
The man shook his fist weakly, then crawled back inside, not bothering to shut the door.
Others crawled up the carpeted aisles between rows, their noses to the floor, the way they had been taught to crawl under live machinegun fire in basic training.
Perhaps they had uneasy thoughts of being munched for dinner by the animals, and they had crawled indoors when they felt the end was near.
Harold's eyes crawled over her with great avidity as he came to meet her.
As she did so, a hideous long burping sound escaped him, a belch that seemed to go on and on, rasping in his throat as if a locust had crawled down there and had now come to life in the dark channel, calling and calling.
He washed them down with water from the toilet bowl and then crawled up on his bunk and clasped his knees against his chest, cursing Poke for getting him into such a mess.
White maggots crawled busily in the sockets that had once held his rabbit's pretty pink eyes.
Nick crawled out from underneath, one hand clapped over his wounded eye.
He crawled toward her on his hands and knees, the smell of vomit stronger now, making his stomach knot.
They went back together, and he crawled next to her trustingly, the interloper forgotten, at least temporarily.
Harold crawled to where his dropped pistol lay on the road and pounced on it.
Somehow he had crawled down from the tank and had staggered away, weaving and lunging in and out of the dead traffic, holding his barbecued left arm away from his body.
His skin, dry with age, nonetheless crawled and goosebumped a little at the thought.
Shocked, shaken, scraped raw, his right leg a bolt of agony, he had picked himself up and had crawled a little way up the slope.
He crawled into the pocket of shade beneath them, put his jacket under his head, and was asleep almost at once.