meaning of 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 fiat on ones belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
2. To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
3. grovel 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 couldnt find the command I wanted. " [Jargon File] grunge /gruhnj/ 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code. gry "Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry". There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it? Answer: "language". This puzzle has circulated widely on the Internet for some years, but usually in an abbreviated form such as "Name three common English words ending in gry", which has no good third answer. http://www. word-detective. com/gry. html.
4. show submission or fear

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