crawl

gatear, arrastrarse

Moverse apoyándose en las manos y las rodillas, o con el cuerpo muy cerca del suelo.

En inglés sencillo: To move on your hands and knees, or move with your body close to the ground.

• The baby is crawling.
• A spider crawled across the floor.
• We crawled through the narrow tunnel.

Cómo se usa: crawl under/through something (The child crawled under the table.); crawl on your hands and knees (We crawled on our hands and knees through the tunnel.)

Sinónimos: creep

Expresiones frecuentes: crawl on something, crawl under something, crawl through something

avanzar lentamente

Moverse muy despacio; también se usa cuando parece que el tiempo pasa muy lentamente.

En inglés sencillo: To move or seem to pass very slowly.

• The traffic crawled along.
• Time crawled during the long wait.
• Our train crawled past the repair workers.

Cómo se usa: crawl along something (The cars crawled along the busy road.)

Sinónimos: creep, inch

Antónimos: race

Expresiones frecuentes: crawl along, crawl past something, crawl forward

sentir escalofríos

Sentir una sensación desagradable en la piel, como si caminaran insectos sobre ella, por miedo o asco.

En inglés sencillo: If your skin does this, it feels as though insects are moving over it, often from fear or disgust.

• The story made my skin crawl.
• My skin crawled when I saw the insects.
• Even thinking about that room makes her skin crawl.

Cómo se usa: make someone’s skin crawl (The sound of his laugh made my skin crawl.)

Expresiones frecuentes: make skin crawl, skin begins to crawl

estar lleno de, estar plagado de

Estar un lugar lleno de personas, animales o insectos que se mueven por él.

En inglés sencillo: If a place is doing this, it is full of moving people, animals, or insects.

• The floor was crawling with ants.
• The beach is crawling with tourists.
• By noon, the street was crawling with reporters.

Cómo se usa: be crawling with someone/something (The kitchen was crawling with ants.)

Sinónimos: swarm, teem

Expresiones frecuentes: crawl with something, crawl with insects, crawl with people

arrastrarse, adular

Rebajarse e intentar agradar demasiado a alguien para conseguir su favor o su ayuda.

En inglés sencillo: To behave without pride, trying too hard to please someone or get their help.

• Stop crawling to the boss.
• He came crawling back after losing his job.
• She refused to crawl before people with more power.

Cómo se usa: crawl to someone (He crawled to his boss to ask for another chance.); come crawling back to someone (She expected him to come crawling back to her.)

Sinónimos: grovel, toady

Expresiones frecuentes: crawl to someone, crawl back, crawl before someone

trepar, extenderse

Crecer una planta lentamente sobre una superficie, extendiendo tallos o ramas.

En inglés sencillo: To grow slowly across a surface by sending out stems or branches.

• Ivy crawled up the wall.
• The vines crawl over the garden fence.
• Long stems had crawled along the edge of the roof.

Cómo se usa: crawl over/up/along something (Ivy crawled up the old stone wall.)

Sinónimos: creep, trail

Expresiones frecuentes: crawl over something, crawl up something, crawl along something

paso de tortuga

Velocidad muy baja a la que algo se mueve o avanza.

En inglés sencillo: A very slow speed of movement or progress.

• Traffic moved at a crawl.
• Work slowed to a crawl after lunch.
• The queue advanced at a crawl in the heat.

Cómo se usa: at a crawl (Traffic moved at a crawl.); slow to a crawl (The computer slowed to a crawl.)

Sinónimos: snail’s pace

Expresiones frecuentes: at a crawl, slow to a crawl, reduce to a crawl, bring to a crawl

gateo

Movimiento sobre las manos y las rodillas, o con el cuerpo cerca del suelo.

En inglés sencillo: An act of moving on hands and knees or with the body close to the ground.

• The tunnel required a short crawl.
• His crawl through the mud left his clothes filthy.
• We practised a belly crawl under the ropes.

Cómo se usa: a crawl through something (It was a difficult crawl through the low tunnel.)

Expresiones frecuentes: crawl through something, crawl on something, belly crawl