FAWNING Synonyms

• a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• persuade someone through flattery

• use flattering talk on somebody

• influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• crouch or curl up

• show submission or fear

• a very slow movement

• a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• feel as if crawling with insects

• be full of

• show submission or fear

• swim by doing the crawl

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

• a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• to go stealthily or furtively

• grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

• show submission or fear

• some event or object that causes embarrassment and shame

• A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• show submission or fear

• horse of a dull brownish grey color

• a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

• of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

• treat cruelly

• persistently ask for overdue payment

• cure by salting

• make a dun color

• a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission

• bend the knees and bow in a servile manner

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

• yield to out of weakness

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• take in, also metaphorically

• ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering