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单词 grovel
释义
grovel
verb[I]
uk
/ˈɡrɒv.əl/us
/ˈɡrɑː.vəl/
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grovelverb[I](TRY TO PLEASE)

tobehavewith too muchrespecttowards someone to show that you are veryeagertopleasethem:
卑躬屈膝，奴颜婢膝，俯首帖耳
Hesenta grovellingnoteofapology.他寄去了一封低三下四的道歉信。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
  • backhanded compliment
  • bootlicker
  • bow and scrapeidiom
  • crawler
  • creep
  • fawn
  • flummery
  • glad-handing
  • hagiographic
  • idealization
  • idealize
  • obsequious
  • people pleaser
  • play up tosomeone
  • schmooze
  • servile
  • slobber
  • toady
  • toadying
  • unctuous
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grovelverb[I](MOVE)

tomovecloseto or on theground:
匍匐前进，爬行
I was grovelling under thesofa,tryingtofindmycontactlens.我正爬到沙发底下找我的隐形眼镜。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
  • clamber
  • claw
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • crawl
  • four
  • on all foursidiom
  • pull
  • scramble
  • shimmy
  • slither
  • wriggle
(Definition ofgrovelfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

grovel| American Dictionary

grovel
verb[I]
us
/ˈɡrɑv·əl,ˈɡrʌv·əl/
toliefacingtheground,esp. infear, or tobehavetoward someone in a way thatshowsthat you aresmallandunimportantand the otherpersonispowerful:
Mydoggrovels at myfeetwhen she’s done somethingwrong.
I’llapologize, but I won’t grovel just because I made amistake.
(Definition ofgrovelfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrovel

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There is a big difference between grovelling on my knees in a 2 ft.
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There is no appeal, and no amount of grovelling will get them back in the pecking order.
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He is not a man who would accept grovelling.
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We must equally beware of truculence and of grovelling.
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The word "grovelling" was used.
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Stop grovelling and get on with it.
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He described himself as a grovelling sycophant.
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He has gone grovelling to them.
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He climed the social ladder through his unscrupulousness and steps down and grovels up.
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He grovelled to the insurgents as he had done to his parents.
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If he falls down, he is not permitted to rise or be raised, but grovels along upon the ground.
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The author also mentions that the country has been humiliated and ashamed of herself grovelling in the dust.
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Reduced to grovelling, he is removed by guards.
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There will be no mercy for our sugar-coated, honey-dripping, wheedling, grovelling allies!
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He boasts and bluffs then grovels like the worm he is when things go wrong.
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