crawl

To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

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To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

To act in a servile manner.

Don’t come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up. An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer; one. Hath crawled into the favour of the king

Followed by with: see crawl with.

To feel a swarming sensation.

The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.

The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).

A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.

A very slow pace.

My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.

A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.