Kilo Lingo

crawl

/krɔːl/

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Translation

To move along the ground on your hands and knees.

Word origin

From Old Norse krafla, meaning to claw or move slowly on the ground.

Origin
Old Norse
Root
krafla

Grammar

Verb typeregular (crawl, crawls, crawled)

Examples

across .

Here "crawl" means to move on hands and knees.

spider .

"Crawled" is the past form of "crawl".

.

"Crawls" is the form used with he, she, or it.

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This word is part of lesson 16.