Men grovel at her feet.
Source: tatoeba (3130143)
Grovel
//ˈɡrɒvəl//
Synonyms for "grovel" (105 found)
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69 translations across 17 languages.
Azerbaijani
3 entries- alçalmaq verb (to abase oneself)
- iməkləmək verb (to abase oneself)
- sürünmək verb (to abase oneself)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лежа по очи verb (to be prone on the ground)
- подмазвам се verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
- пълзя verb (to crawl)
- раболепнича verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
Catalan
1 entries- arrossegar verb (to crawl)
Czech
4 entries- lízat paty verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
- plazit se verb (to crawl)
- plazit se verb (to abase oneself)
- ponižovat se verb (to abase oneself)
Danish
2 entries- kravle verb (to crawl)
- krybe verb (to crawl)
Dutch
2 entries- kruipen verb (to crawl)
- kruipen verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
Finnish
4 entries- kontata verb (to crawl)
- madella verb (to crawl)
- madella verb (to abase oneself)
- mielistellä verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
French
4 entries- larbiner verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
- ramper verb (to crawl)
- s'abaisser verb (to abase oneself)
- s'aplatir verb (to abase oneself)
Galician
4 entries- abaixarse verb (to abase oneself)
- humillarse verb (to abase oneself)
- prosternarse verb (to be prone on the ground)
- prostrarse verb (to be prone on the ground)
German
4 entries- auf dem Bauch rutschen verb (to abase oneself)
- katzbuckeln verb (to abase oneself)
- kriechen verb (to crawl)
- kriechen verb (to abase oneself)
Hebrew
1 entries- התרפס verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
Italian
4 entries- abbassarsi verb (to abase oneself)
- giacere bocconi verb (to be prone on the ground)
- giacere prono verb (to be prone on the ground)
- grufolarsi verb (to take pleasure in mundane things)
Māori
2 entries- tāpapa verb (to be prone on the ground)
- whakapāpaku verb (to abase oneself)
Russian
4 entries- лежа́ть ниц verb (to be prone on the ground)
- по́лзать verb (to crawl)
- пресмыка́ться verb (to abase oneself)
- пресмыка́ться verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gmizati verb (to crawl)
- plaziti verb (to crawl)
- puzati verb (to crawl)
- puzati verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
Spanish
4 entries- arrastrarse verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
- humillarse verb (to abase oneself)
- humillarse verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
- postrarse verb (to be prone on the ground)
Turkish
4 entries- ayaklarına/dizlerine kapanmak verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
- sürünmek verb (to crawl)
- sürünmek verb (to abase oneself)
- sürünmek verb (to be slavishly nice in the hope of securing something)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Don't grovel.
Source: tatoeba (5447074)
In the tube station, the old ones who were on the way out / Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout
Source: wiktionary
She refused to grovel in front of the bully, standing her ground.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.