About The Word Grovel
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Grovel
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What's The Definition Of Grovel?
[v] show submission or fear
Synonyms | Synonyms for Grovel: cower | crawl | creep | cringe | fawn Related Terms | Find terms related to Grovel: apple-polish | be promiscuous | bend | bend the knee | bend the neck | bend to | bootlick | bow | bow and scrape | bow down | bow to | chase women | commit adultery | couch | cower | crawl | creep | cringe | cringe to | crouch | crouch before | curtsy | debauch | dissipate | do homage | do obeisance | fawn | flatter | flounder | fornicate | genuflect | get down | go on tiptoe | gumshoe | hug the earth | hunch | hunch down | inch | inch along | kneel | kneel to | knuckle to | kowtow | lay | lick the dust | lickspittle | lie | lie down | lie flat | lie limply | lie low | lie prone | lie prostrate | lie under | loll | lounge | nightwalk | pad | philander | prowl | pussyfoot | rake | recline | repose | roll | scrabble | scramble | scrouch down | sidle | sleep around | slink | snake | sneak | sprawl | squat | steal | steal along | stoop | swing | tippytoe | tiptoe | toadeat | toady | truckle | truckle to | tumble | underlie | wallow | wanton | welter | whore | womanize | worm | worm along Grovel In Webster's Dictionary \Grov"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Groveled}or {Grovelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Groveling} or {Grovelling}.] [From OE.
grovelinge, grufelinge, adv., on the face, prone, which was
misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same
sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. gr[=u]fa, in [=a] gr[=u]fu
on the face, prone, gr[=u]fa to grovel.]
1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to
lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the
earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of
abjectness; to crawl.
To creep and grovel on the ground. --Dryden.
2. To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to
be low, abject, or mean.
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