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Bowed   /baʊd/  /boʊd/   Listen
verb
Bow  v. t.  (past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)  
1.
To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. "We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness." "The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny."
2.
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. "Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion." "Not to bow and bias their opinions."
3.
To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. "They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him."
4.
To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress; to crush; to subdue. "Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave."
5.
To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.


Bow  v. i.  (past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)  
1.
To play (music) with a bow.
2.
To manage the bow.


adjective
bowed  adj.  
1.
Bent over; used of back or head.
Synonyms: bent, inclined.
2.
(Music) Sounded by stroking with a bow; of a stringed musical instrument; as, bowed instruments. Contrasted with plucked.
3.
Resembling an arch.
Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate.
4.
Same as bow-legged.
Synonyms: bandy, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged.
5.
Submitting to the authority of another.
Synonyms: bowing.





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"Bowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... fashionable and painfully unbecoming, and the pearls which rose and fell upon her tremendous bosom were almost too good to be true. From beneath the short skirt a pair of ponderous legs terminated in all the anguish of patent-leather shoes. Anthony bowed. ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it. At length he said, 'I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.' I bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said, 'Do you understand me?' I replied, 'Yes.' 'Tis ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
... beautiful that the audience was uproarious in its approval; it had calculated, of course, upon an encore, and recalled the pianist again and again until he had appeared and bowed his thanks several times. But there was no encore; the stage hands appeared and moved the piano to one side, and the audience relapsed into unsatisfied ...
— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok
... The lackey bowed obsequiously and left the apartment. He paused behind the closed door, and with defiant, angry countenance, ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... we have just seen, he ate potatoes, the trash on which at that time they fed pigs and convicts. He ate them indignant, but resigned. He was not tall—he was long. He was bent and melancholy. The bowed frame of an old man is the settlement in the architecture of life. Nature had formed him for sadness. He found it difficult to smile, and he had never been able to weep, so that he was deprived of the consolation of tears as well as ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo


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