transcription, транскрипция: [ grɒv(ə)l ]
( grovels, grovelling, grovelled)
Note: in AM, use 'groveling', 'groveled'
1.
If you say that someone grovels , you think they are behaving too respectfully towards another person, for example because they are frightened or because they want something.
I don’t grovel to anybody...
Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel.
...a letter of grovelling apology.
VERB : V to/before n , V , V-ing [ disapproval ]
2.
If you grovel , you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something.
We grovelled around the club on our knees.
VERB : V prep / adv , also V