Another word for grovel
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Verb
To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior
- A person who flatters or defers to others obsequiously; a sycophant.
- Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.
- The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.
- Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.
- To curry favor with in an obsequious manner; fawn on.
- A small wheel or roller; a caster.
- To be servile or submissive.
- A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
- To be a toady to or behave like a toady.
- To slobber; drool.
- To behave in an obsequious manner.
- Saliva drooling from the mouth.
- To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.
- To show servile deference.
- The act of kneeling and touching the forehead to the ground.
- To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing.
- To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior.
- To shrink back, as in fear; cower.
- To behave in a servile way; fawn.
- An act or instance of cringing.
- To behave like a sycophant toward (someone) or behave like a sycophant.
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Another word for grovel
Verb
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- (idiomatic) To pay false flattery to; to flatter in excess.
- to seek favor or approval from (someone) by obsequious behavior; fawn (on)
- one who brown-noses
- A fluid or semifluid soap.
- Flattery; cajolery.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) to admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology
- A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love.
- An act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy.
- Used as a form of address for certain members of the Christian clergy:
- To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration:
- To cause to lie flat:
- To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome:
- To equal in action; to fulfill in practice.
- An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.
- A short street, especially a wide alley walled by buildings on three sides.
- A large open section of a building, often with a glass roof or skylight.
- To treat with excessive indulgence:
- To give in to; gratify:
- To indulge with rich food; glut.
- The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness:
- That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement:
- The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd:
- To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor.
- To please or gratify the vanity of:
- To portray favorably:
- To coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole.
- To obtain through the use of flattery or guile:
- To persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile; cajole:
- To use flattery or cajolery to achieve one's ends.
- To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore:
- To request earnestly; beg for:
- To sniffle.
- To complain or whine tearfully.
- The act of sniffling or sniveling.
- To cringe in fear.
- Any of numerous aquatic, chiefly marine filter-feeding invertebrate animals of the phylum Porifera, characteristically having a porous skeleton composed of fibrous material or siliceous or calcareous spicules and often forming colonies attached to an underwater surface.
- A piece of the absorbent skeleton of certain of these organisms, or a piece of plastic or another material that is similar in absorbency, used for cleaning, bathing, and other purposes.
- Metal in a porous, brittle form, as after the removal of other metals in processing, used as a raw material in manufacturing.
- A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
- To be a toady to or behave like a toady.
- To appeal to in supplication; beseech:
- To beg for urgently:
- To make an earnest appeal.
- To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.
- To show servile deference.
- The act of kneeling and touching the forehead to the ground.
- A small wheel or roller; a caster.
- To be servile or submissive.
- To go down or rest on one or both knees.
- To bend forward and down from the waist or the middle of the back:
- To stand or walk, especially habitually, with the head and upper back bent forward.
- To lower or debase oneself:
- To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
- To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.
- To move, give, take, or put in a quiet, stealthy manner:
- To ask (someone) for something in an urgent or humble manner:
- To ask for (something) in an urgent or humble manner:
- To ask for (food or money, for instance) as a beggar.
- To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing.
- To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior.
- To shrink back, as in fear; cower.
- To behave in a servile way; fawn.
- An act or instance of cringing.
- To move slowly on the hands and knees or by dragging the body along the ground; creep:
- To advance slowly, feebly, laboriously, or with frequent stops:
- To proceed or act servilely:
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