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bowed out

bowed out is the simple past and past participle of bow out.

Meaning of bow out

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) 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.

Questions about bowed out

What is bowed out the simple past and past participle of?
Bowed out is the simple past and past participle of bow out.

Words near bowed out in the dictionary

  1. bowed dulcimer
  2. bowed dulcimers
  3. bowed guitar
  4. bowed guitars
  5. bowed in
  6. bowed out
  7. bowed psalteries
  8. bowed psaltery
  9. bowed to
  10. bowed-down
  11. bowedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowed out (page history and authors); bow out (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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