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What does grovel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word grovel? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To be prone on the ground.
  2. To crawl.
  3. To abase oneself before another person.
  4. To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
  5. To take pleasure in mundane activities.
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With this in mind, it is my plea that we should respect human rights rather than grovel to anybody.
Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty.
Why this sacred cow before which Parliament, which has always denounced it, is meant to grovel?
People below you are treated like dirt and the people above you, you grovel to.
I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
People should not have to grovel for that money, which is what is happening and it is their own money.

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