grovel

They wanted to watch Shafik squirm and grovel and then they wanted her head on a spike, while amplifying a largely invented crisis that delights their base and divides core liberal constituencies against each other.

In the movie, the editor of a literary magazine is forced to grovel for publishing a suddenly disfavored play.

Thus they hide from the light, they burrow and grovel, and yet ever in, and through, and on them blazes that mighty light with its horror of darkness and behind it peals the voice…that must be answered.

On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul made Suozzi drive to Albany to all but grovel for her support.

“A few weeks ago our 14 year old dog stopped eating. At no point did our vet say to us ‘you should grovel before him and tell him you think he's the President,’” tweeted Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill.