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1. f. (--ed/--led, --ing/--ling).
2. kendini alçaltmak, yaltaklanmak.
3. yerde sürünmek. (korku, vb.'den) yerlerde sürünmek; dizlerine kapanmak, yag çekmek. kendini küçült. kendini küçült. f. (--ed/--led, --ing/--ling).
4. yerde sürünmek. yerde sürünmek, sürünmek, ayaklarına kapanmak, tapmak, yaltaklanmak.
5. yerde sürünmek; kendini alçaltmak, groveler zelil kimse, alçalmış kimse, alçal/yere kapan, yaltaklanmak.
6. (korku.vb.`den) yerlerde sürünmek. dizlerine kapanmak. yağ çekmek.
7. yere kapanmak. kendini alçaltmak. yerde sürünmek. yaltaklanmak.
8. kendini küçült.

Etymology : back-formation from groveling prone, from groveling, adverb, from Middle English, from gruf, adverb, on the face + -ling
Pronunciation : 'grä-v^&l,
Function : intransitive verb
Date : 1593

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1. crawl; beg; be servile; prostrate oneself; humiliate oneself. grovel\grov"el\ , v. i. [imp. & p. p. groveled or grovelled; p. pr. & vb. n. groveling or grovelling.] [from oe. grovelinge, grufelinge, adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. oe. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of scand. origin, cf. icel. grūfa, in ā grūfu on the face, prone, grūfa to grovel.].
2. 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. to creep and grovel on the ground.
3. to tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.grovel show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower].
4. 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 flat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
5. To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
6. grov·el grovels grovelling grovelled in AM, use groveling, grovele.
7. disapproval 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.
8. If you grovel, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something. We grovelled around the club on our knees.