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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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People below you are treated like dirt and the people above you, you grovel to.
Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty.
This includes computerising land records so that farmers can secure title-documents without having to grovel before the local patwari.
Eventually he let me go, thankfully without insisting I forfeit my memory card or grovel at his feet or sign a written apology.
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.
People should not have to grovel for that money, which is what is happening and it is their own money.

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