Usually means: Begged humbly on the ground.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. groveled: Merriam-Webster
  2. groveled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. groveled: Collins English Dictionary
  4. groveled: Vocabulary.com
  5. groveled: Wordnik
  6. groveled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. groveled: Wiktionary
  8. Groveled, groveled: Dictionary.com
  9. groveled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Groveled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Groveled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. groveled: FreeDictionary.org
  13. groveled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. groveled: Legal dictionary

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  1. groveled: Encyclopedia

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  1. groveled: Idioms

(Note: See grovel as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To be prone on the ground.
verb:  (intransitive) To crawl.
verb:  (intransitive) To abase oneself before another person.
verb:  (intransitive) To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
verb:  (intransitive) To take pleasure in mundane activities.
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