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crowl

/kɹaʊl/

crowl verb: to make a growling noise, as the stomach.

Verb

crowl (third-person singular simple present crowls, present participle crowling, simple past and past participle crowled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.

Noun

crowl (plural crowls)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland) A small person or creature; a dwarf or runt.
    Synonyms:
    crile

Proper noun capitalized: Crowl

Crowl (plural Crowls)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of crowl

Forms of crowl

Verb
third-person singular presentcrowls
present participlecrowling
past participlecrowled
pastcrowled
Noun
pluralcrowls
Proper noun
pluralCrowls

Origin of crowl

Unknown.

Questions about crowl

What does crowl mean?
Crowl means to make a growling noise, as the stomach.
What part of speech is crowl?
Crowl can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce crowl?
Crowl is pronounced /kɹaʊl/.
What is the past tense of crowl?
The past tense of crowl is crowled.

Words near crowl in the dictionary

  1. crowing over
  2. crowingly
  3. crowings
  4. crowkeeper
  5. crowkeepers
  6. crowl
  7. Crowland
  8. Crowlands
  9. Crowle
  10. Crowle and Ealand
  11. crowled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowl (page history and authors); Crowl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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