Definition of grovel in English:

grovel

verbgrovelled, grovelling, grovels, groveled, groveling ˈɡrɒv(ə)lˈɡrʌv(ə)l

[no object]

1Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards.
匍匐，趴；匍匐前进，爬行
he grovelled at George's feet
Example sentencesExamples
- She saw him grovel on the floor, begging for mercy.
- He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
- If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no.
- There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming.
- He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine.
- Of course, I meant that you should have grovelled far more at Andrea's feet, and made far more clear your ‘Junior Partner’ status.
- In Shackleton's own words, ‘We had suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory.’
- This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing ‘power moves’.
- I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
- Incidentally, the ancient Maya had a fairly advanced understanding of astronomy - so there's some question as to whether they would have grovelled in front an eclipse.
Synonyms
crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, prostrate oneself, kneel, fall on one's knees
throw oneself at someone's feet
1. 1.1 Act in an obsequious way in order to obtain someone's forgiveness or favour.
  奴颜婢膝，卑躬屈膝
  they criticized leaders who grovelled to foreign patrons
  Example sentencesExamples
  In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins.
  We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over.
  Other ordinaries say they will respond only on the basis of individual need; thus, if such a resigned priest languishes in abject poverty or grovels fittingly, he may receive some reluctant beneficence.
  I remembered how, as a younger man, I would never have groveled or whined for any reason.
  Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed.
  In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful.
  He brags about how valued he is at school to impress a woman, then grovels to have his old job back.
  They're not servile and grovelling like the English are.
  Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs.
  They groveled to the females before every song and it was just a lame rock performance.
  In a sickening display of abject groveling he declared: ‘My behavior on this occasion was unacceptable and irresponsible.’
  You groveled to him, so let him have you.
  However, it sometimes seems as though a mere public reconsideration is not enough: we instead demand an abject, groveling apology and a confession that those who opposed the war were right about every last thing.
  Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns.
  Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy.
  I begged and groveled and groveled and begged.
  An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset.
  As a depiction of Labor policy, it represents one of the more sniveling grovels in recent memory.
  And after the attacks on her grow worse they experience mixed emotions as Jack grovels and pleads with her not to go when finally she decides she has had enough and announces she is leaving.
  Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty.
  Synonyms
  behave obsequiously, be obsequious, be servile, be sycophantic, fawn, kowtow, bow and scrape, toady, truckle, abase oneself, humble oneself, prostrate oneself

Derivatives

groveller

noun

He is beginning to look like a recidivist groveler who should not be allowed any nearer the Oval Office than the public tour.
Example sentencesExamples
- He was sick of Hollywood grovelers and pleasers, and had come to Forest Glen to get away from that.
- Does the potentate favor the most obsequious groveler?
- Since then he has become a serial apologizer and accomplished groveler.
- But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and bootlickers, he was not.

grovellingly

adverbˈɡrɒv(ə)lɪŋliˈɡrɑv(ə)lɪŋli

The same speaker grovellingly agreed that guests of an Australian parliamentarian should be removed from the public gallery.
Example sentencesExamples
- The new TV advert grovellingly asks us to ‘return to using rail’.
- He was forced to grovellingly apologise.

Origin

Middle English: back-formation from the obsolete adverb grovelling, from obsolete groof, grufe 'the face or front' (in the phrase on grufe, from Old Norse á grúfu 'face downwards') + the suffix -ling.

Rhymes

hovel, novel

Definition of grovel in US English:

grovel

verb

[no object]

1Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downward.
匍匐，趴；匍匐前进，爬行
she was groveling on the floor in fear
Example sentencesExamples
- This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing ‘power moves’.
- She saw him grovel on the floor, begging for mercy.
- Of course, I meant that you should have grovelled far more at Andrea's feet, and made far more clear your ‘Junior Partner’ status.
- He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
- He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine.
- If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no.
- I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
- In Shackleton's own words, ‘We had suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory.’
- There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming.
- Incidentally, the ancient Maya had a fairly advanced understanding of astronomy - so there's some question as to whether they would have grovelled in front an eclipse.
Synonyms
crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, prostrate oneself, kneel, fall on one's knees
1. 1.1 Act in an obsequious way in order to obtain someone's forgiveness or favor.
  奴颜婢膝，卑躬屈膝
  everyone expected me to grovel with gratitude
  所有人都认为我会因感激而卑躬屈膝。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You groveled to him, so let him have you.
  And after the attacks on her grow worse they experience mixed emotions as Jack grovels and pleads with her not to go when finally she decides she has had enough and announces she is leaving.
  I begged and groveled and groveled and begged.
  Other ordinaries say they will respond only on the basis of individual need; thus, if such a resigned priest languishes in abject poverty or grovels fittingly, he may receive some reluctant beneficence.
  Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy.
  However, it sometimes seems as though a mere public reconsideration is not enough: we instead demand an abject, groveling apology and a confession that those who opposed the war were right about every last thing.
  I remembered how, as a younger man, I would never have groveled or whined for any reason.
  An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset.
  He brags about how valued he is at school to impress a woman, then grovels to have his old job back.
  Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns.
  We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over.
  In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins.
  They groveled to the females before every song and it was just a lame rock performance.
  Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed.
  In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful.
  In a sickening display of abject groveling he declared: ‘My behavior on this occasion was unacceptable and irresponsible.’
  Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs.
  Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty.
  As a depiction of Labor policy, it represents one of the more sniveling grovels in recent memory.
  They're not servile and grovelling like the English are.
  Synonyms
  behave obsequiously, be obsequious, be servile, be sycophantic, fawn, kowtow, bow and scrape, toady, truckle, abase oneself, humble oneself, prostrate oneself

Origin

Middle English: back-formation from the obsolete adverb grovelling, from obsolete groof, grufe ‘the face or front’ (in the phrase on grufe, from Old Norse á grúfu ‘face downwards’) + the suffix -ling.

单词	grovel
释义	Definition of grovel in English: grovel verbgrovelled, grovelling, grovels, groveled, groveling ˈɡrɒv(ə)lˈɡrʌv(ə)l [no object] 1Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards. 匍匐，趴；匍匐前进，爬行 he grovelled at George's feet Example sentencesExamples She saw him grovel on the floor, begging for mercy. He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her. If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no. There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming. He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine. Of course, I meant that you should have grovelled far more at Andrea's feet, and made far more clear your ‘Junior Partner’ status. In Shackleton's own words, ‘We had suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory.’ This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing ‘power moves’. I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again. Incidentally, the ancient Maya had a fairly advanced understanding of astronomy - so there's some question as to whether they would have grovelled in front an eclipse. Synonyms crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, prostrate oneself, kneel, fall on one's knees throw oneself at someone's feet 1.1 Act in an obsequious way in order to obtain someone's forgiveness or favour. 奴颜婢膝，卑躬屈膝 they criticized leaders who grovelled to foreign patrons Example sentencesExamples In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins. We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over. Other ordinaries say they will respond only on the basis of individual need; thus, if such a resigned priest languishes in abject poverty or grovels fittingly, he may receive some reluctant beneficence. I remembered how, as a younger man, I would never have groveled or whined for any reason. Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed. In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful. He brags about how valued he is at school to impress a woman, then grovels to have his old job back. They're not servile and grovelling like the English are. Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs. They groveled to the females before every song and it was just a lame rock performance. In a sickening display of abject groveling he declared: ‘My behavior on this occasion was unacceptable and irresponsible.’ You groveled to him, so let him have you. However, it sometimes seems as though a mere public reconsideration is not enough: we instead demand an abject, groveling apology and a confession that those who opposed the war were right about every last thing. Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns. Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy. I begged and groveled and groveled and begged. An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset. As a depiction of Labor policy, it represents one of the more sniveling grovels in recent memory. And after the attacks on her grow worse they experience mixed emotions as Jack grovels and pleads with her not to go when finally she decides she has had enough and announces she is leaving. Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty. Synonyms behave obsequiously, be obsequious, be servile, be sycophantic, fawn, kowtow, bow and scrape, toady, truckle, abase oneself, humble oneself, prostrate oneself Derivatives groveller noun He is beginning to look like a recidivist groveler who should not be allowed any nearer the Oval Office than the public tour. Example sentencesExamples He was sick of Hollywood grovelers and pleasers, and had come to Forest Glen to get away from that. Does the potentate favor the most obsequious groveler? Since then he has become a serial apologizer and accomplished groveler. But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and bootlickers, he was not. grovellingly adverbˈɡrɒv(ə)lɪŋliˈɡrɑv(ə)lɪŋli The same speaker grovellingly agreed that guests of an Australian parliamentarian should be removed from the public gallery. Example sentencesExamples The new TV advert grovellingly asks us to ‘return to using rail’. He was forced to grovellingly apologise. Origin Middle English: back-formation from the obsolete adverb grovelling, from obsolete groof, grufe 'the face or front' (in the phrase on grufe, from Old Norse á grúfu 'face downwards') + the suffix -ling. Rhymes hovel, novel Definition of grovel in US English: grovel verb [no object] 1Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downward. 匍匐，趴；匍匐前进，爬行 she was groveling on the floor in fear Example sentencesExamples This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing ‘power moves’. She saw him grovel on the floor, begging for mercy. Of course, I meant that you should have grovelled far more at Andrea's feet, and made far more clear your ‘Junior Partner’ status. He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her. He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine. If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no. I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again. In Shackleton's own words, ‘We had suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory.’ There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming. Incidentally, the ancient Maya had a fairly advanced understanding of astronomy - so there's some question as to whether they would have grovelled in front an eclipse. Synonyms crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, prostrate oneself, kneel, fall on one's knees 1.1 Act in an obsequious way in order to obtain someone's forgiveness or favor. 奴颜婢膝，卑躬屈膝 everyone expected me to grovel with gratitude 所有人都认为我会因感激而卑躬屈膝。 Example sentencesExamples You groveled to him, so let him have you. And after the attacks on her grow worse they experience mixed emotions as Jack grovels and pleads with her not to go when finally she decides she has had enough and announces she is leaving. I begged and groveled and groveled and begged. Other ordinaries say they will respond only on the basis of individual need; thus, if such a resigned priest languishes in abject poverty or grovels fittingly, he may receive some reluctant beneficence. Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy. However, it sometimes seems as though a mere public reconsideration is not enough: we instead demand an abject, groveling apology and a confession that those who opposed the war were right about every last thing. I remembered how, as a younger man, I would never have groveled or whined for any reason. An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset. He brags about how valued he is at school to impress a woman, then grovels to have his old job back. Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns. We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over. In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins. They groveled to the females before every song and it was just a lame rock performance. Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed. In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful. In a sickening display of abject groveling he declared: ‘My behavior on this occasion was unacceptable and irresponsible.’ Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs. Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty. As a depiction of Labor policy, it represents one of the more sniveling grovels in recent memory. They're not servile and grovelling like the English are. Synonyms behave obsequiously, be obsequious, be servile, be sycophantic, fawn, kowtow, bow and scrape, toady, truckle, abase oneself, humble oneself, prostrate oneself Origin Middle English: back-formation from the obsolete adverb grovelling, from obsolete groof, grufe ‘the face or front’ (in the phrase on grufe, from Old Norse á grúfu ‘face downwards’) + the suffix -ling.
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