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bowed to

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

Meaning of bow to

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.

Questions about bowed to

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

Words near bowed to in the dictionary

  1. bowed guitars
  2. bowed in
  3. bowed out
  4. bowed psalteries
  5. bowed psaltery
  6. bowed to
  7. bowed-down
  8. bowedness
  9. bowel
  10. bowel cancer
  11. bowel cancers

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