Results for "Coordinate Terms" search of verb "crawl"

 

Sense 1 crawl, creep -- (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")

    -> travel, go, move, locomote -- (change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect";"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell")

       => go around, spread, circulate -- (become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office")

       => carry -- (cover a certain distance or advance beyond, as of a ball in golf; "The drive carried to the green")

       => trail -- (drag along heavily or wearily; "The tired man seemed to trail his limbs after himself")

       => ease -- (move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair")

       => whish -- (move with a whishing sound; "The car whished past her")

       => float -- (move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage")

       => swap -- (move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science)

       => seek -- (go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level")

       => whine -- (move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us")

       => fly -- (be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying")

       => ride -- (move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night sky")

       => come -- (cover a certain distance; "She came a long way")

       => ghost -- (move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard")

       => betake oneself -- (displace oneself; go from one location to another)

       => pass over, overfly -- (fly over; "The plane passed over Damascus")

       => travel -- (undergo transportation, as in a vehicle)

       => wend -- (direct one's course or way)

       => do -- (travel or traverse (a distance) "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day")

       => raft -- (travel by raft in water; "Raft the Colorado River")

       => get around, get about -- (move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?")

       => repair to, resort to, go to -- (move, travel, or proceed toward some place; "He repaired to his cabin in the woods")

       => cruise -- (travel at a moderate speed; of vessels or airplanes)

       => travel, journey -- (travel upon or across; "travel the oceans")

       => come, come up -- (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room")

       => round -- (wind around; move along a circular course)

       => trundle -- (move heavily; of vehicles, such as streetcars)

       => travel purposefully -- (travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal)

       => swing -- (change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward")

       => wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond -- (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next")

       => walk, take the air -- (take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday")

       => weave, wind, thread, meander, wander -- (to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body")

       => forge, spurt, spirt -- (move with increasing speed)

       => crawl, creep -- (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")

       => scramble -- (to move hurriedly; "The friend scrambled after them.")

       => slither, slide -- (to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through the wicket in the big gate,")

       => wheel, roll -- (move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds")

       => glide -- (move smoothly and effortlessly)

       => bounce, jounce -- (move up and down repeatedly)

       => breeze -- (to proceed quickly and easily)

       => float, drift, be adrift, blow -- (be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore")

       => play -- (move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly; "The spotlights played on the politicians")

       => float, swim -- (be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink)

       => walk -- (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet")

       => turn, move around -- (pass to the other side of; "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle")

       => circle -- (travel around something; "circle the globe")

       => slice into, slice through -- (e.g., move through a body or an object with a slicing motion; "His hand sliced through the air")

       => stray, err, drift -- (wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course")

       => run -- (travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there")

       => step -- (take a step)

       => drive, motor -- (travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater")

       => automobile -- (travel in an automobile)

       => ski -- (move along on skis; "We love to ski the Rockies")

       => fly, wing -- (travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly")

       => steam -- (travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific")

       => taxi -- (travel slowly; "The plane taxied down the runway")

       => ferry -- (travel by ferry)

       => ride, sit -- (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare")

       => prance -- (spring foward on the hind legs; "The young horse was prancing in the meadow")

       => swim -- (travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore")

       => rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise -- (move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows")

       => ascend, go up -- (travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope")

       => descend, fall, go down, come down -- (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again")

       => fall -- (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse")

       => zigzag, crank -- (travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside")

       => follow, travel along -- (travel along a certain course; "follow the road"; "follow the trail")

       => advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on -- (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on")

       => withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back -- (pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb")

       => retrograde -- (move in a direction contrary to the usual one; of stars and planets)

       => proceed, go forward, continue -- (move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now")

       => back -- (travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree")

       => pan -- (make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room")

       => follow -- (to travel behind, go after, come after; "The ducklings followed their mother around the pond"; "Please follow the guide through the museum")

       => precede, lead -- (move ahead (of others) in time or space)

       => pursue, follow -- (follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life")

       => return, go back, get back, come back -- (come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity)

       => derail, jump -- (run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks")

       => flock -- (move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears")

       => accompany -- (go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere")

       => billow -- (move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed")

       => circulate -- (move around freely; "She circulates among royalty")

       => circle, circulate -- (move in circles)

       => angle -- (move or proceed at an angle; "he angled his way into the room")

       => pass, go through, go across -- (go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind")

       => travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass -- (pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other")

       => travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip -- (move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed")

       => speed -- (travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; "I got a ticket for speeding")

       => zoom -- (move noisily, as of aircraft)

       => drive -- (move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around the corner")

       => rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along -- (step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street")

       => trail, trudge, shack -- (to walk or proceed draggingly, slowly; "Snow buried the streets and covered the slanting rooftops, as John trudged toward St. Peter's.")

       => shuttle -- (travel back and forth between two points)

       => hiss, whoosh -- (move with a whooshing sound)

       => whisk -- (move quickly and nimbly; "He whisked into the house")

       => career -- (move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets")

       => circuit -- (make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state")

       => lance -- (move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore")

       => outflank, go around -- (go around the flank of (an opposing army))

       => propagate -- (travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium")

       => draw -- (move or go steadily or gradually; "The ship drew near the shore")

       => transfer, change -- (change from one vehicle or transportation line to another; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast")

       => swash -- (make violent, noisy movements)

       => pace -- (go at a pace, as of a horse)

       => step, tread -- (put down the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread")

       => hurtle -- (move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by")

       => retreat -- (move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer")

       => whistle -- (move with, or as with, a whistling sound; "The bullets whistled past him")

       => island hop -- (travel from one island to the next, as on a cruise)

       => plow, plough -- (move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water")

       => lurch, stagger -- (move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road")

       => rip, tear -- (move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast")

       => sift -- (move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods")

       => fall -- (move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward")

       => drag -- (move slowly and as if with great effort)

       => run -- (move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these people running around in the building?"; "She runs around telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run free")

       => bang -- (move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged around the house")

       => precess -- (move in a gyrating fashion; "the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied")

       => travel, move around -- (travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge)

       => ride -- (sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town")

       => snowshoe -- (travel on snowshoes; "After a heavy snowfall, we have to snowshoe to the grocery store")

       => beetle -- (fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home")

 

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