Crawl and Push

Crawl

Crawl verb - To move slowly with the body close to the ground.

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Push and crawl are semantically related In some cases you can use "Push" instead a verb "Crawl".

Nearby Words: crawling, crawled, crawler, crawly, craw

Push verb - To apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one.

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Crawl and push are semantically related in trip topic. Sometimes you can use "Crawl" instead a verb "Push", if it concerns topics such as journey.

Nearby Words: pushed, pushy, pushover, pushing, pusher

body	crawl body	push body
someone	crawl someone	push someone
series	crawl series	push series
time	crawl time	push time
Other words: way, head, door, humans, objects, walls, doors.

The crew has to painfully crawl to it and push a few buttons to return to a normal trajectory.

Source: Technology Marches On / Computers
One of the original Five Man Bands, the Science Ninja Team may fight, argue and generally crawl all over each other's nerves, but when push comes to shove they'll go through hell for one another.

Source: Band of Brothers
Some monsters still have an escape roll option; some are insubstantial or gelatinous so you literally push through, the rest you can only assume you crawl back out their mouth.

Source: Just Eat Him

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