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{
"term": "crawl",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "crawl",
"heSheIt": "crawls"
},
"pastSimple": "crawled",
"pastParticiple": "crawled",
"ingForm": "crawling"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to move forward on your hands and knees or with your body close to the ground",
"sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our baby is just starting to crawl."
},
{
"text": "A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage."
},
{
"text": "She crawled under the fence."
},
{
"text": "As night fell, we managed to crawl back to our lines."
},
{
"text": "Has the baby started to crawl yet?"
},
{
"text": "We spent an hour crawling around on our hands and knees looking for the key."
},
{
"text": "She was forced to crawl along through the thickening mist."
}
],
"topics": ["Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["quickly", "slowly", "about"],
"verb + crawl": ["manage to", "start to"],
"preposition": ["across", "along", "into"],
"phrases": ["crawl on (your) hands and knees"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "when an insect, a spider, etc. crawls, it moves forward on its legs",
"sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There's a spider crawling up your leg."
}
],
"topics": ["Insects, worms, etc."]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to move forward very slowly",
"sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The traffic was crawling along."
},
{
"text": "The weeks crawled by."
},
{
"text": "The traffic was crawling as I left the city."
},
{
"text": "The taxi crawled to a halt."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["quickly", "slowly", "about"],
"verb + crawl": ["manage to", "start to"],
"preposition": ["across", "along", "into"],
"phrases": ["crawl on (your) hands and knees"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to be too friendly or helpful to somebody in authority, in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them",
"sensetop": "crawl (to somebody)",
"labels": "(informal, disapproving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's always crawling to the boss."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to search the internet in order to record and list data",
"sensetop": "crawl something",
"labels": "(computing)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A protocol controls which pages a web crawler will crawl."
}
],
"topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if you say that somebody comes/crawls out of the woodwork, you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation",
"labels": "(informal, disapproving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to make you feel afraid or full of horror",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Just the sight of him makes my skin crawl."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/krɔːl/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawl__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/krɔːlz/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawls__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/krɔːld/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawled__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkrɔːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawling__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/krɔːl/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawl__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/krɔːlz/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawls__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/krɔːld/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawled__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkrɔːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "cr/crawl/crawling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle."
}