crawled

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past simple and past participle of

to move along on hands and knees or with your body stretched out along a surface:

crawl across The child crawled across the floor.

Megan has just learned to crawl.

The injured soldier crawled to safety.

He had to crawl along a ledge and get in through a window.

to move or progress slowly or with difficulty:

The lorry crawled noisily up the hill.

crawl along There's a lot of work to be done and we're crawling along at a snail's pace.

to try hard to please in order to get an advantage:

I don't like people who crawl.

crawl to He crawled to the group leader because he wanted a promotion.

to be completely covered with or full of a particular type of thing:

After the bomb scare, the airport was crawling with police.