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Main Entry: grovel
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abase, demean oneself

Synonyms:

apple-polish, beg, beg for mercy, beseech, blandish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brown-nose, butter up, cater to, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, eat crow, eat dirt, eat humble pie, fall all over, fawn*, flatter, humble oneself, humor, implore, kiss one's feet, kneel, kowtow, make much of, make up to, pamper, play up to, prostrate*, revere, snivel, soft-soap, stoop, suck up to, truckle, wheedle, yes*

Antonyms:

boast
Main Entry: court
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fawn over, pay attention to

Synonyms:

allure, ask in marriage, attract, beseech, bid, bootlick, captivate, charm, chase, cultivate, curry favor, date, entice, entreat, flatter, follow, gallant, go out with, go steady, go together, go with, grovel, importune, invite, keep company with, make love to, make overture, make time with, pander to, pay addresses to, pay court to, please, pop the question, praise, propose, pursue, run after, seek, seek the hand of, serenade, set one's cap, solicit, spark, spoon, sue, sweetheart, take out, woo

Antonyms:

disregard, ignore
Main Entry: cower
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hide, hover in fear

Synonyms:

apple-polish, blench, bootlick, brownnose, cringe, crouch, draw back, fawn, flinch, grovel, honey*, kowtow, quail, recoil, shrink, skulk, sneak, toady, tremble, truckle, wince

Antonyms:

come out
Main Entry: crawl
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: move very slowly

Synonyms:

clamber, creep, drag, drag oneself along, go on all fours, go on belly, grovel, hang back, inch, lag, loiter along, lollygag, move at snail's pace, move on hands and knees, plod, poke, pull oneself along, scrabble, slide, slither, squirm, worm, wriggle, writhe
Main Entry: crawl
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: humble oneself

Synonyms:

abase oneself, apple-polish, brownnose, cringe, fawn, grovel, toady, truckle
Main Entry: creep
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: crawl along, usually on ground

Synonyms:

approach unnoticed, crawl on all fours, edge, glide, grovel, gumshoe, inch, insinuate, lurk, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, skulk, slink, slither, snake*, sneak, squirm, steal, tiptoe, worm, wriggle, writhe
Main Entry: cringe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flinch, recoil from danger

Synonyms:

blench, cower, crawl, crouch, dodge, draw back, duck, eat dirt, grovel, kneel, quail, quiver, shrink, shy, start, stoop, tremble, wince

Antonyms:

come forward
Main Entry: crouch
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stoop low; cringe

Synonyms:

bend, bend down, bow, cower, dip, duck, grovel, huddle, hunch, hunker down, kneel, quail, quat, scrooch down, squat, stoop, wince

Antonyms:

stretch
Main Entry: fawn
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ingratiate oneself to; serve

Synonyms:

abase, apple-polish, be at beck and call, be obsequious, be servile, blandish, bow, brownnose, buddy up, butter up, cajole, cater to, cave in to, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curry favor, debase, defer, fall all over, fall on one's knees, flatter, grovel, honey up, invite, jolly, kneel, kowtow, lay it on, lick boots, make up to, massage*, oil, pander, pay court, play up to, scrape, slaver, snow*, stoop, stroke*, submit, toady, truckle, woo*, yield

Antonyms:

ignore
Main Entry: flatter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: compliment excessively

Synonyms:

adulate, beslaver, blandish, bootlick, brownnose, build up*, butter up, cajole, cater to, charm, con, court, fawn*, get next to, glorify, grovel, humor, inveigle, jolly, lay it on thick, massage, oil, overpraise, play up to, praise, rub the right way, salve, sell, snow*, soft-soap, soften*, spread it on, stroke, suck up to, sweet-talk, sweeten up, toady, wheedle, work on, work over

Antonyms:

belittle, castigate, condemn, criticize, denounce, insult, offend
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