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grovel

(v): show submission or fear
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12 days ago yarb said:

In ornithological days, at the observatory, we used, not infrequently, to discover moribund specimends. They seemed always to have grovelled into some niche to quietly get on with it...

- Peter Reading, C, 1984

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