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crawl verb [ krɔːl ]

• move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.
• "they crawled from under the table"
Similar: creep, go on all fours, move on hands and knees, inch, drag oneself along, pull oneself along, drag, trail, slither, slink, squirm, wriggle, writhe, scrabble, worm one's way, advance slowly/stealthily, sneak,
• behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favour.
• "a reporter's job can involve crawling to objectionable people"
Similar: grovel to, be obsequious towards, ingratiate oneself with, be servile towards, be sycophantic towards, kowtow to, pander to, abase oneself to, demean oneself to, bow and scrape to, prostrate oneself before, toady to, truckle to, dance attendance on, fawn on/over, curry favour with, cultivate, seek the favour of, try to win over, try to get on the good side of, make up to, play up to, suck up to, lick someone's boots, creep to, be all over, fall all over, rub up the right way, keep someone sweet, sweet-talk, soft-soap, brown-nose, butter up, twist someone's arm, blandish, lick/kiss someone's arse, lick/kiss someone's ass,
• be covered or crowded with (insects or people), to an extent that is objectionable.
• "the floor was dirty and crawling with bugs"
Similar: be full of, overflow with, teem with, abound in/with, be packed with, be crowded with, be thronged with, be jammed with, be alive with, be overrun with, swarm with, be bristling with, be infested with, be thick with, be lousy with, be stuffed with, be jam-packed with, be chock-a-block with, be chock-full of, be heaving with, pullulate with,
• (of a program) systematically visit (a number of web pages) in order to create an index of data.
• "its automated software robots crawl websites, grabbing copies of pages to index"

crawl noun

• an act of moving on one's hands and knees or dragging one's body along the ground.
• "they began the crawl back to their own lines"
• a swimming stroke involving alternate overarm movements and rapid kicks of the legs.
• "she could do the crawl and so many other strokes"
Origin: Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle .

make someone's skin crawl

• cause someone to feel an unpleasant sensation resembling something moving over the skin, as a symptom of fear or disgust.
"a person dying in a fire—doesn't it make your skin crawl?"

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