crawled
- 1Simple past and past participle of crawl.
The injured climber crawled toward the shelter as snow began to fall.
Traffic crawled along the highway for hours after the accident.
Note
A regular past form, so the simple past and the participle share one spelling: she crawled home, she has crawled home. Nearly every meaning of crawl takes no object, so the participle pairs with have and almost never appears in a passive. Swimming is the exception, where an object is possible: he crawled the final length. With with, it describes a place teeming with something: the cellar crawled with spiders.
crawled is a form of crawl
crawl, verb: To move slowly along with the body close to the ground, either on hands and knees or by dragging oneself. Full entry
- Spelling
- crawl → crawled: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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