bow down
/baʊ ˈdaʊn/
bow down verb: to bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.
Verb
bow down (third-person singular simple present bows down, present participle bowing down, simple past and past participle bowed down)
- To bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.
- 8 Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.
9 Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 5:8–10 - You were all so powerful, so overwhelming. The whole world bowed down before you.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...
- 8 Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.
- To submit to another; to acknowledge one's inferiority to another.
- You better bow down to my skills.
bow down meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
bow down in Tamil
- to bow down, let down; to deepen, depress
- தாழ் tāḻ
bow down in Marathi
- to bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference
- पाया पडणे pāyā paḍṇe
bow down in Bengali
- অন্যের শ্রেষ্ঠত্ব স্বীকার করা
bow down in Malayalam
- bow down
- കുനിയുക kuniyuka
More languagesFewer languages
- bow down in Kannada
- ಮಣಿ, ಪದುಗು, ಎರ್ಗು, ಎರಗು
Forms of bow down
| third-person singular present | bows down |
|---|---|
| present participle | bowing down |
| past participle | bowed down |
| past | bowed down |
Words formed from bow down
Questions about bow down
- What does bow down mean?
- Bow down means to bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.
- What is bow down in Tamil?
- Bow down in Tamil is தாழ் (tāḻ). See Bow down meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bow down?
- Bow down is a verb.
- How do you pronounce bow down?
- Bow down is pronounced /baʊ ˈdaʊn/.
- What is the past tense of bow down?
- The past tense of bow down is bowed down.
Words near bow down in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bow down (page history and authors); தாழ் (Tamil) (page history and authors); bow down (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കുനിയുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); bow down (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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