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[ US /ˈɡɹɑvəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɒvə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. show submission or fear

How To Use grovel In A Sentence

  • The dog grovelled before his master when he saw the whip.
  • No doubt trying for an audience with Gabriel Androctusa chance to grovel and bootlick his way into squirehood. Virginity
  • I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
  • You will just have to grovel to the bank manager for a loan.
  • 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.
  • I didn't have to grovel for a handout from my parents anymore.
  • Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
  • And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
  • All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The dog groveled before his master when he saw the whip.
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