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What does grovel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word grovel? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To be prone on the ground.
  2. To crawl.
  3. To abase oneself before another person.
  4. To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
  5. To take pleasure in mundane activities.
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I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
Eventually he let me go, thankfully without insisting I forfeit my memory card or grovel at his feet or sign a written apology.
This includes computerising land records so that farmers can secure title-documents without having to grovel before the local patwari.
People below you are treated like dirt and the people above you, you grovel to.
He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine.
It's all sort of sad and makes you wonder how much the 79-year-old elder statesman is willing to grovel for his job.

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