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bows to

bows to is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bows to

What is bows to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bows to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bow to.

Words near bows to in the dictionary

  1. bows and scrapes
  2. bows down
  3. bows down before the porcelain god
  4. bows in
  5. bows out
  6. bows to
  7. bowsaw
  8. bowsaws
  9. bowse
  10. bowsed
  11. bowser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bows 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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