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groveled

verb

Meaning

  1. To be prone on the ground.
  2. To crawl.
  3. To abase oneself before another person.
  4. To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
  5. To take pleasure in mundane activities.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

crawl(English)creep(English)cower(English)cringe(English)fawn(English)graved(English)grew(English)fell over(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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