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crawl

/krɔːl/

US pronunciation
American sound/krɔːl/
crawl
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Aw vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> crawl

Myanmar meaning

(v) တွားသွားသည်။ မကျောင်းတွားတွားသည်။ (ယာဉ်) ဘီးလိမ့်ရုံမောင်းသည်။ ဝပ်တွားခယသည်။ ခယဝယလုပ် သည်။ (n) လိပ်သွားသွားခြင်း။ လက်ပစ်ကူး။

Full entry

crawl /krↄ:l/ v

၁။ (က) တွားသွားသည်။ မိကျောင်းတွားတွားသည်။
a beetle crawling along a leaf ❍ The wounded man crawled painfully to the phone. ❍ A baby crawls before it can walk.
(ခ) (ယာဉ်) ဘီးလိမ့်ရုံမောင်းသည်။ The traffic crawled over the bridge. See also KERB-CRAWLING
၂။ ~ (to sb) (infml derog ) ဝပ်တွားခယသည်။ ခယဝယလုပ် သည်။ I don't like crawling (to my boss).
n [sing]
၁။ (derog ) လိပ်သွားသွားခြင်း။ traffic moving at a crawl ❍ We slowed to a crawl. See also PUB CRAWL
၂။ (often the crawl ) လက်ပစ်ကူး။ Can you do the crawl?
❏ crawler n (infml derog ) ဖော်လံဖား။
❏ crawl with sth [PHRV ] (esp in the continuous tenses) အုံနေ၊ ခဲနေသည်။
The ground was crawling with ants ❍ The place is crawling with (ie is full of) police.

More examples
  • She crawled across the floor, her eyes stinging from the smoke.
  • They crawled through the tunnel.
  • She is just learning to crawl.
  • Ants were crawling over the cheese.
  • Cars and lorries crawled along the main road.
  • I was so tired I just wanted to crawl into bed.
  • The weeks crawled by until we could meet again.
  • [crawl to] : The way you crawl to them makes me sick.
  • I’d rather die than go crawling back to him.
Synonyms
move slowly, creep, edge, inch, make slow progress, lag behind, move at a snail's pace, abase oneself, apologize, apple-polish, brownnose, butter up, clamber, crawler, cringe, drag, drag oneself along, eat crow, eat humble pie, fawn, filler, flatter, footpace, go on all fours, go on belly, grovel, hang back, harrier, humble oneself, humiliate yourself, infest, ingratiate yourself, lag, loiter along, lollygag, lumbering pace, move at snail's pace, move on hands and knees, overspread, packer, plod, poke, prostrate yourself, pull oneself along, scrabble, scramble, scuttle, skulk, slide, slink, slither, snail's pace, snake, sneak, squirm, suck up, swarmer, toady, tootle, tortoise's pace, truckle, turtle's pace, worm, worrier, wriggle, writhe
Antonyms
alienate, rush
Cross references
move slowlycreepedgeinchmake slow progresslag behindmove at a snail's paceabase oneselfapologizeapple-polishbrownnosebutter upclambercrawlercringedragdrag oneself alongeat croweat humble piefawnfillerflatterfootpacego on all foursgo on bellygrovelhang backharrier
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