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bowing to

bowing to is the present participle and gerund 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 bowing to

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

Words near bowing to in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowing 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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