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Bowed   /baʊd/  /boʊd/   Listen
Bowed

adjective
1.
Of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow.  Antonym: plucked.
2.
Forming or resembling an arch.  Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate.
3.
Have legs that curve outward at the knees.  Synonyms: bandy, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged.
4.
Showing an excessively deferential manner.  Synonym: bowing.


Bow

verb
(past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)
1.
Bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head.  Synonym: bow down.  "She bowed her head in shame"
2.
Yield to another's wish or opinion.  Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit.
3.
Bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting.
4.
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.  Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop.  "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
5.
Play on a string instrument with a bow.



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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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