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Collocations for crawl - noun

1. very slow speed

ADJECTIVE

slow

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PREPOSITION

at a crawl
The traffic was moving at a slow crawl.

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VERB + crawl

be down to
Westbound traffic was down to a crawl.
slow down to, slow to

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Collocations for crawl - verb

2. swimming stroke

ADVERB

quickly, slowly
about (esp. BrE), along, around, away, back, forward, round (esp. BrE), through
We spent an hour crawling around on our hands and knees looking for the key.

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VERB + crawl

manage to
As night fell, we managed to crawl back to our lines.
start to
Has the baby started to crawl yet?

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PREPOSITION

across, along, into, off, out of, over, under, up
There's an insect crawling up your leg!

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PHRASES

crawl on (your) hands and knees

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Crawl is used with these nouns as the subject:
baby, flesh, fly, insect, ivy, skin, spider, wasp, worm

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Crawl is used with these nouns as the object:
site

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