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groveling 音标拼音: [gr'ɔvəlɪŋ] [gr'ɔvlɪŋ] a. 匍匐的;卑躬折节的 匍匐的;卑躬折节的 groveling adj 1: totally submissive [ synonym: { cringing}, { groveling}, { grovelling}, { wormlike}, { wormy}] Grovel \ Grov" el\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Groveled} or { Grovelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Groveling} or { Grovelling}.] [ From OE. grovelinge, grufelinge, adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. gr[= u] fa, in [= a] gr[= u] fu on the face, prone, gr[= u] fa to grovel.] 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie flat on one' s belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. [ 1913 Webster] To creep and grovel on the ground. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean. [ 1913 Webster]
groveling \ grov" el* ing\, grovelling \ grov" el* ling\, a. Lying prone; low; debased; submissive in a self- abasing manner. " A groveling creature." -- Cowper. Syn: cringing, wormlike, wormy. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1. 5] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " groveling": abject, accumbent, apple- polishing, ass- kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown- nosing, couchant, couche, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, decumbent, draped, fawnery, fawning, flat, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation, kowtowing, lolling, lounging, lying, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism, procumbent, prone, prostrate, prostration, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, sniveling, sponging, sprawled, sprawling, spread, supine, sycophancy, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting
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