GROVEL


Meaning of GROVEL in English

(~s, ~ling, ~led)

Note: in AM, use '~ing', '~ed'

1.

If you say that someone ~s, you think they are behaving too respectfully towards another person, for example because they are frightened or because they want something.

I don’t ~ to anybody...

Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to ~.

...a letter of ~ling apology.

VERB: V to/before n, V, V-ing disapproval

2.

If you ~, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something.

We ~led around the club on our knees.

VERB: V prep/adv, also V

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .