Definitions
Crawling - as a noun
A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Example: "A crawl was all that the injured man could manage"
Crawling - as a verb
To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
Example: "Clutching my wounded side, i crawled back to the trench."
To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
Example: "The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass."
To act in a servile manner.
Example: "Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!"
(with "with") see crawl with.
To feel a swarming sensation.
Example: "The horrible sight made my skin crawl."
To swim using the crawl stroke.
Example: "I think i'll crawl the next hundred metres."
To move over an area on hands and knees.
Example: "The baby crawled the entire second floor."
To visit while becoming inebriated.
Example: "They crawled the downtown bars."
To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
Example: "Yahoo search has updated its slurp crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficiently."
Example Sentences
Word Game Points
CRAWLING has a SCRABBLE points total of 14.
CRAWLING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 18.
CRAWLING has a WORDFEUD points total of 16.
