grovel
/ˈɡrɒvəl/verb
To lie or crawl flat on the ground, face downward.
Example sentence
- “The soldiers groveled in the mud to stay out of sight.”
The dominant sense is figurative and contemptuous: to grovel is to beg or flatter without dignity. 'I'm not going to grovel' is the standard refusal to apologize abjectly.