Synonyms for grovel
Definitions
- v. 1
To be prone on the ground.
Related words
- Word family
- groveler
Forms
- Past participle
- groveled
e.g. groveled → crawled, fawned, cringed, cowered…
Example sentences
- crawl The thought of powdered sugar makes my skin crawl.
- cringe I may be cringe, but you're mean, and that's worse.
- cower The noise caused Lorenzo to cower in fear.
- wallow A pig will wallow in the mud in order to cool down.
- prostrate He lay prostrate, ready to ambush the invaders.
By length
- 3 letters
- lie1
- 4 letters
- fawn1
- 5 letters
- sneak1, crawl1, creep1, cower2
- 6 letters
- cringe1, wallow2
- 7 letters
- grabble
- 9 letters
- prostrate2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cower2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ramper
- Italiano
- strisciare
- Español
- reptar
- Deutsch
- kriechen
- Català
- reptar