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# grovel

«grovel» in Mova's school dictionary: **To lie or crawl low on the ground, especially to show…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (grovels, grovelled, grovelling; US groveled)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To lie or crawl low on the ground, especially to show fear or respect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grovel/#m1)

2) To beg or act very humbly to win favour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grovel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a servant or poor man bows and begs before a lord, king or aunt

### examples

- The dog grovelled at his master's feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grovel/#x1)
- He grovelled before the king for pardon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grovel/#x2)
- Stop grovelling and stand up straight! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grovel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grovel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grovel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.