grovel

v. crawl; beg; be servile; prostrate oneself; humiliate oneself

Verb
1. show submission or fear
(synonym) fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower
(hypernym) bend, flex
(derivation) apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler, ass-kisser

(adv.)
To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
  

(adv.)
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 fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
  

1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with "over" or "through". "The file scavenger has been groveling through the /usr directories for 10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form: "grovel obscenely".
2. To examine minutely or in complete detail. "The compiler grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate it." "I grovelled through all the documentation, but I still couldn't find the command I wanted."
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