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What (who) is grovel - definition
grovel
¦ verb (grovels, grovelling, grovelled; US grovels, groveling, groveled)
1. crouch or crawl abjectly on the ground.
2. act obsequiously to obtain forgiveness or favour.
Derivatives
groveller noun
grovelling adjective
grovellingly adverb
Origin
ME: back-form. from the obs. adverb grovelling, from obs. groof, grufe 'the face or front' (from ON a grufu 'face downwards') + the suffix -ling.
grovel
1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often
used transitively with "over" or "through". "The file
scavenger has been groveling through the /usr directories for
10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic
form: "grovel obscenely".
2. To examine minutely or in complete detail. "The compiler
grovels over the entire source program before beginning to
translate it." "I grovelled through all the documentation,
but I still couldn't find the command I wanted."
[Jargon File ]
Grovel
·adv To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
II. Grovel ·adv 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.
Examples of use of grovel
1. He doesn‘t grovel at the feet of our big neighbor,‘‘ Udovenko said, referring to Russia.
2. Why does Olmert have to grovel before Eli Yishai to keep Shas from walking out?
3. He doesn‘t grovel at the feet of our big neighbor," Udovenko said, referring to Russia.
4. Standard procedure would have been for the Chicks to grovel and beg forgiveness.
5. "One does not force Arlen Specter to grovel without paying a substantial price," said Rutgers‘ Baker.