0 to behave with too much respect towards someone to show that you are very eager to please them: --
2 to lie facing the ground, esp. in fear, or to behave toward someone in a way that shows that you are small and unimportant and the other person is powerful: --
He boasts and bluffs then grovels like the worm he is when things go wrong.
There will be no mercy for our sugar-coated, honey-dripping, wheedling, grovelling allies!
Reduced to grovelling, he is removed by guards.
The author also mentions that the country has been humiliated and ashamed of herself grovelling in the dust.
If he falls down, he is not permitted to rise or be raised, but grovels along upon the ground.
He grovelled to the insurgents as he had done to his parents.
He climed the social ladder through his unscrupulousness and steps down and grovels up.
He has gone grovelling to them.
