bow out
/baʊ aʊt/
bow out verb: to resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact.
Verb
bow out (third-person singular simple present bows out, present participle bowing out, simple past and past participle bowed out)
- To resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact.
- Jane had a long spell as chairman, but bowed out after she had a child.
- Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. [title]2024 June 28, Thomas L. Friedman, “Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
bow out meaning in Malayalam
bow out in Malayalam
- withdraw, step down, resign
- പിന്മാറുക, രംഗത്തുനിന്നു പിന്മാറുക, പിൻവലിയുക, പുറകോട്ടു വലിയുക, നിവർത്തിക്കുക, നിഷ്ക്രമിക്കുക
Forms of bow out
| third-person singular present | bows out |
|---|---|
| present participle | bowing out |
| past participle | bowed out |
| past | bowed out |
Questions about bow out
- What does bow out mean?
- Bow out means to resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact.
- What is bow out in Malayalam?
- Bow out in Malayalam is പിന്മാറുക, രംഗത്തുനിന്നു പിന്മാറുക, പിൻവലിയുക. See Bow out meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is bow out?
- Bow out is a verb.
- How do you pronounce bow out?
- Bow out is pronounced /baʊ aʊt/.
- What is the past tense of bow out?
- The past tense of bow out is bowed out.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bow out (page history and authors); bow out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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