GROVELLING Synonyms

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

• attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

• attempting to win favor by flattery

• supporting yourself on your knees

• attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

• attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

• compliant and obedient to authority

• serving or acting as a means or aid

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

• attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

• attempting to win favor by flattery

• stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

• lying face downward

• get into a prostrate position, as in submission

• render helpless or defenseless

• throw down flat, as on the ground

• 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

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

• a young deer

• show submission or fear

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• have fawns