Synonyms and Antonyms of crawl
1
to move slowly with the body close to the ground
- the time we had to crawl through a narrow passageway from one cave to another
2
to move slowly
- the weekend traffic on the road to the beach just crawled
creak (along), creep, drag, inch, limp, nose, ooze, plod, poke, slouch, snail
3
to move or act slowly
- the deadline is fast approaching, so this is no time to crawl
creep, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag (also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry
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
bowl, breeze, dart, hump, hurtle, hustle, scramble, stampede
gallop, jog, run, sprint, trot
accelerate, quicken, speed (up)
catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake
barrel, bolt, career, course, dash, fly, hasten, hotfoot (it), hurry, race, rip, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scud, scurry, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, whiz (or whizz), zip
4
to be copiously supplied
- something must be up, as city hall is crawling with reporters
abound, brim, bristle, bulge, burst, bustle, buzz, hum, overflow, pullulate, swarm, teem
