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grovel

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1.grovel - To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with "over" or "through". "The file scavenger has been groveling through the /usr directories for 10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form: "grovel obscenely".
2.grovel - To examine minutely or in complete detail. "The compiler grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate it." "I grovelled through all the documentation, but I still couldn't find the command I wanted."


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Either to be a hero or to grovel in the mud--there was nothing between.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
But before the torture you shall be mine for one short hour, and word of that too shall go forth to Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium, your grandfather, that he may grovel upon the ground in the agony of his sorrow.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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