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Xem thêm: front crawl, Australian crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, creep, fawn, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
crawl noun
1 very slow speed
ADJ. slow
PREP. at a ~ The traffic was moving at a slow crawl.
VERB + CRAWL be down to The traffic on the motorway was down to a crawl. | slow (down) to
2 swimming stroke strokes a fast, powerful, strong crawl a slow breaststroke do, swim (the) ~ a swimmer doing the crawl I can't swim butterfly. strike out in/with breaststroke/crawl She struck out with a strong crawl towards the shore. a length of ~ He did 15 lengths of backstroke every morning. In competitions the categories are backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle (= in which competitors do crawl because it is fastest). 100 metres, 200 metres, etc. ~ men's, women's ~ compete in ~ competing in the women's 100 metres freestyle in the ~ He came first in the 200 metres backstroke.
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n.
the traffic advanced at a crawl
a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
the traffic moved at a creep
v.
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
My skin crawled--I was terrified
The old cheese was crawling with maggots
European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl