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Synonyms for crawl
The synonym for crawl recorded in this bank is creep, in the sense "a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for crawl
- creepnoun, in the sense "a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and crawl carries one sense so far.
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
A crawl was all that the injured man could manage.
The true synonym
creep
Same sentence, swapped: A creep was all that the injured man could manage.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- circuit
- stroke
- floating
Where crawl turns up in the game
crawl is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where crawl is the trap
- dartverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bolt, in the sense "to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction", and crawl is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play crawl
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crawl reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. crawl carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.