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1. grovel

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Usually means: Beg humbly with extreme submission.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word grovel:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. grovel: Merriam-Webster
  2. grovel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grovel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grovel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grovel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grovel, grovel: Wordnik
  7. grovel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grovel: Wiktionary
  9. grovel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grovel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grovel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grovel, grovel: Dictionary.com
  13. grovel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grovel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grovel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. grovel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. grovel: Rhymezone
  18. grovel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. grovel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. grovel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. grovel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. grovel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. grovel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grovel: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grovel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. grovel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grovel: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grovel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grovel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See groveled as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be prone on the ground.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To crawl.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To abase oneself before another person.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take pleasure in mundane activities.

Similar:
crawl, creep, cower, cringe, fawn, genuflect, grabble, crouch, prostrate, hunker, more...

Opposite:
assert, stand up, defend, uphold

Types:
kowtow, fawn, toady, cringe, truckle, more...

Phrases:
does not grovel, more...

Adjectives:
full, ghibelline, new, mere, fewer, gelatinous, poor, light, good, less

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Similar:
crawl, creep, cower, cringe, fawn, genuflect, grabble, crouch, prostrate, hunker, more...

Opposite:
assert, stand up, defend, uphold

Types:
kowtow, fawn, toady, cringe, truckle, more...

Phrases:
does not grovel, more...

Adjectives:
full, ghibelline, new, mere, fewer, gelatinous, poor, light, good, less

Colors:
    olive,     brown,     gray,     taupe,     khaki, more...



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