- past progressive of grovel.
Example Sentences
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Some of the women in the camp were groveling in True Confessions, living in a misty world of make-believe and dreaming of the day they'd be able to go back to civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They were groveling there in a tangle of legs and arms when "Happy Tom" came down the grade, leading a charge which swept the embankment clean.
From The Iron Trail by Beach, Rex Ellingwood