crawl

krabbeln, kriechen

Sich auf Händen und Knien oder mit dem Körper dicht am Boden fortbewegen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: 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.)

Synonyme: creep

Häufige Wendungen: crawl on something, crawl under something, crawl through something

schleichen

Sich sehr langsam bewegen; auch von Zeit gesagt, die scheinbar kaum vergeht.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: crawl along something (The cars crawled along the busy road.)

Synonyme: creep, inch

Gegenteile: race

Häufige Wendungen: crawl along, crawl past something, crawl forward

schaudern

Aus Angst oder Ekel ein unangenehmes Hautgefühl haben, als liefen Insekten über die Haut.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: make someone’s skin crawl (The sound of his laugh made my skin crawl.)

Häufige Wendungen: make skin crawl, skin begins to crawl

wimmeln von

Von Menschen, Tieren oder Insekten erfüllt sein, die sich überall bewegen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: be crawling with someone/something (The kitchen was crawling with ants.)

Synonyme: swarm, teem

Häufige Wendungen: crawl with something, crawl with insects, crawl with people

kriechen, sich anbiedern

Sich würdelos verhalten und übertrieben um die Gunst oder Hilfe einer Person bemühen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: 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.)

Synonyme: grovel, toady

Häufige Wendungen: crawl to someone, crawl back, crawl before someone

ranken, kriechen

Als Pflanze langsam über eine Fläche wachsen, indem sich Stängel oder Zweige ausbreiten.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: crawl over/up/along something (Ivy crawled up the old stone wall.)

Synonyme: creep, trail

Häufige Wendungen: crawl over something, crawl up something, crawl along something

Schneckentempo

Eine sehr geringe Geschwindigkeit bei einer Bewegung oder einem Fortschritt.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: at a crawl (Traffic moved at a crawl.); slow to a crawl (The computer slowed to a crawl.)

Synonyme: snail’s pace

Häufige Wendungen: at a crawl, slow to a crawl, reduce to a crawl, bring to a crawl

Kriechen, Krabbeln

Fortbewegung auf Händen und Knien oder mit dem Körper dicht am Boden.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: a crawl through something (It was a difficult crawl through the low tunnel.)

Häufige Wendungen: crawl through something, crawl on something, belly crawl