Definition of Grovel

(adv.)
To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
  

(adv.)
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.
  

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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.]
1. 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.
2. to tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
grovel
v : show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower]

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      glover

(jocular) exclamation used to plead, as for a favour

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Verb
1. show submission or fear
(synonym) fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower
(hypernym) bend, flex
(derivation) apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler, ass-kisser

vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with `over' or `through'. "The file scavenger has been groveling through the /usr directories for 10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form: `grovel obscenely'. 2. To examine minutely or in complete detail. "The compiler grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate it." "I grovelled through all the documentation, but I still couldn't find the command I wanted."