Crawl

Definition

crawl /krↄ:l/ v ၁။ (က) တြားသြားသည္။ မိေက်ာင္းတြားတြားသည္။ a beetle crawling along a leaf ❍ The wounded man crawled painfully to the phone. ❍ A baby crawls before it can walk. (ခ) (ယာဥ္) ဘီးလိမ့္႐ံုေမာင္းသည္။ The traffic crawled over the bridge. See also KERB-CRAWLING ၂။ ~ (to sb) ( infml derog ) ဝပ္တြားခယသည္။ ခယဝယလုပ္ သည္။ I don't like crawling (to my boss). n [sing] ၁။ ( derog ) လိပ္သြားသြားျခင္း။ traffic moving at a crawl ❍ We slowed to a crawl. See also PUB CRAWL ၂။ (often the crawl ) လက္ပစ္ကူး။ Can you do the crawl? ❏ crawler n ( infml derog ) ေဖာ္လံဖား။ ❏ crawl with sth [ PHRV ] (esp in the continuous tenses) အံုေန၊ ခဲေနသည္။ The ground was crawling with ants ❍ The place is crawling with (ie is full of) police.

Examples

1. She crawled across the floor
2. her eyes stinging from the smoke.
3. They crawled through the tunnel.
4. She is just learning to crawl.
5. Ants were crawling over the cheese.
6. Cars and lorries crawled along the main road.
7. I was so tired I just wanted to crawl into bed.
8. The weeks crawled by until we could meet again.
9. [crawl to] : The way you crawl to them makes me sick.
10. I’d rather die than go crawling back to him.