crawl
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a very slow movement
the traffic advanced at a crawl
Types & categories
- movement hypernym
Related & opposite
- crawl derivation
Sense 2 verb
move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
Types & categories
- swimming stroke hypernym
Parts & wholes
- flutter kick part meronym
Related & opposite
- crawl derivation
Sense 4 verb
feel as if crawling with insects
My skin crawled--I was terrified
Types & categories
- feel hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
Types & categories
- locomotion hypernym
Related & opposite
- crawl derivation
Sense 6 verb
be full of
The old cheese was crawling with maggots
Types & categories
- swarm hypernym
Sense 7 verb
show submission or fear
Types & categories
- bend hypernym
Related & opposite
- coward derivation
- apple polisher derivation
- crawler derivation
Sense 8 verb
swim by doing the crawl
European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl
Types & categories
- swim hypernym
Related & opposite
- front crawl derivation
- water sport domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | movement |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | earthworm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | creep |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | creeper |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | formicate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | flutter kick |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | swimming stroke |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | feel |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawl |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | locomotion |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | swarm |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | coward |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | apple polisher |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | crawler |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | bend |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | front crawl |
| 8 | domain topic | Related & opposite | water sport |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | swim |