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bowing out

bowing out is the present participle and gerund 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 bowing out

What is bowing out the present participle and gerund of?
Bowing out is the present participle and gerund of bow out.

Words near bowing out in the dictionary

  1. bowing acquaintance
  2. bowing and scraping
  3. bowing down
  4. bowing down before the porcelain god
  5. bowing in
  6. bowing out
  7. bowing stone
  8. bowing stones
  9. bowing to
  10. bowingly
  11. bowings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowing 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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