Synonym: cower, crawl, creep. Similar words: grove, prove, proven, approve, proverb, groove, improved, hovel. Meaning: ['grɑvl ,'grʌvl /'grɒvl] 
v. show submission or fear.
v. show submission or fear. 
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1, I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
2, Don't grovel — stick up for yourself!
3, I don't grovel to anybody.
4, You will just have to grovel to the bank manager for a loan.
5, I will not grovel for interviews.
6, The department is having to grovel for money again.
7, Not that she would grovel either - devil take it, she'd keep some pride!
8, The Grovel Industry, where you get paid danger money because it's so insecure.
9, No longer you have to grovel through the woods each spring in hopes of stumbling across a few of these delectable fungi.
10, There's nothing worse than seeing a man grovel just to keep his job.
11, If they want any patients, they must grovel before the family practitioners they previously lorded over.
12, Maybe if I really grovel, he will pass me.
13, She will not grovel to anyone.
14, Were I such they would grovel at my feet.
15, He said he would never grovel before a conqueror.
16, Manager : Ah! The famous Monsieur poirot. I grovel in mortification, I grovel !
17, Pessimistic persons would like to grovel on the floor rather than meet the challenge.
18, Then he began to grovel and wail, " I deserve to die! "
19, Those who wished a favour of the emperor had to grovel on hands and knees before him.
20, Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel.
21, A man apologizes when he's wrong, but he will grovel before no one.
22, If a police officer stops your car, be respectful to him,[http://sentencedict.com/grovel.html] but don't grovel.
23, There was trouble over the adults and Chadwick had to grovel to earn approval for his second train transport.
24, These are men who lead their daily lives with inflated pomp; they grovel for nothing.
25, After struggling for months, it dawned on me that I needed to grovel.
26, After struggling for months, it dawned on me that I needed to grovel. She was as important to the department as the snot-nosed junior banker giving her the work.
27, A wise man is one who knows who to bully - and who grovel to.
28, Since they speak straightforwardly and selflessly and never appear to grovel or fawn.
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