Translations for „grovel“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

grovel <Brit: -ll-, Am: -l-> [ˈgrɑːvl, Brit ˈgrɒvl] VB intr

to grovel (before sb)

prostrar-se (diante de alguém)

Usage examples with grovel

to grovel (before sb)

prostrar-se (diante de alguém)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

He finds out he has to grovel, which he finds extremely difficult.

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Many celebrated this public shaming, ecstatic to see a notorious troll grovel.

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With regard to it they yet grovel in darkness and will.

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The "pro-worker" candidates are never held accountable post-election, since this would require challenging them instead of groveling.

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He boasts and bluffs then grovels like the worm he is when things go wrong.

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Because if we must grovel at the feet of strangers, just because they're richer, thinner and more famous, better her than the rest of them.

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They follow him everywhere, they are begging, they are groveling.

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The author also mentions that the country has been humiliated and ashamed of herself grovelling in the dust.

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Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

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When it's the big square groveling in the dirt submissively, infants look far longer -- hey, that guy's supposed to win the interaction, he's bigger.

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