Thesaurus
crawl
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of CRAWL
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to move slowly <the weekend traffic on the road to the beach just crawled>
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to move or act slowly <the deadline is fast approaching, so this is no time to crawl>
Synonyms crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag (also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry
Related Words fiddle (around), fool around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle; hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, lounge; amble, ease, inch, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger, stroll; decelerate, slow (down or up); filibuster, procrastinate, stall, temporize
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