GROVEL meaning: Beg humbly with extreme submission

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word GROVEL:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

grovel: Merriam-Webster
grovel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grovel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grovel: Collins English Dictionary
grovel: Vocabulary.com
Grovel, grovel: Wordnik
grovel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
grovel: Wiktionary
grovel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grovel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grovel: Infoplease Dictionary
Grovel, grovel: Dictionary.com
grovel: Online Etymology Dictionary
grovel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Grovel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grovel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grovel: Rhymezone
grovel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grovel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
grovel: FreeDictionary.org
grovel: Mnemonic Dictionary
grovel: TheFreeDictionary.com
grovel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

grovel: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

grovel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
grovel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

grovel: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

grovel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
grovel: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grovel)

▸ 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

Colors:

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