LekhoriLekhoriTo be prone on the ground.
To crawl.
In the tube station, the old ones who were on the way out / Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout
To abase oneself before another person.
She refused to grovel in front of the bully, standing her ground.
From Middle English *grovelen, from Old Norse grufla, grœfla (“to grovel”), from Proto-Germanic *grubilōną (“to dig, delve into”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ‑ (“to dig, scrape, scrabble, scratch...
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