crawfish

1. 1.

   make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

   “We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him”

   “He backed out of his earlier promise”

   “The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns”

   Synonymsretreatpull backback outback awaycrawfish outpull in one's hornswithdraw

Other forms of crawfish

plural

crawfishes

past tense

crawfished·

present participle

crawfishing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crawfish

What does crawfish mean?

crawfish means "tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crawfish?

crawfish has 2 syllables: craw-fish. The stress falls on "craw". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɔˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for crawfish?

Close synonyms include crayfish, crawdad, ecrevisse, crayfish, crawdad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crawfish a common word?

crawfish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crawfish?

21 words rhyme with crawfish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.