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bow to

bow to verb: to subserviently adhere to (a tradition, etc.).

Verb

bow to (third-person singular simple present bows to, present participle bowing to, simple past and past participle bowed to)

  1. To subserviently adhere to (a tradition, etc.).
    • He declined at first, but when his hosts insisted, he bowed to local custom and played his part in the ritual.

bow to meaning in Sanskrit

bow to in Sanskrit

to bow to, subject or submit
नम् nam

Forms of bow to

third-person singular presentbows to
present participlebowing to
past participlebowed to
pastbowed to

Questions about bow to

What does bow to mean?
Bow to means to subserviently adhere to (a tradition, etc.).
What is bow to in Sanskrit?
Bow to in Sanskrit is नम् (nam). See Bow to meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is bow to?
Bow to is a verb.
What is the past tense of bow to?
The past tense of bow to is bowed to.

Words near bow to in the dictionary

  1. bow stroke
  2. bow thruster
  3. bow thrusters
  4. bow tie
  5. bow ties
  6. bow to
  7. bow up
  8. bow wave
  9. bow waves
  10. bow window
  11. bow windows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bow to (page history and authors); नम् (Sanskrit) (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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