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Bowed   /baʊd/  /boʊd/   Listen
Bowed

adjective
1.
Of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow.
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



... will understand, Mr. Gotobed," said the old lady, "that my grandson has nothing of his own established here as yet." This little excuse was produced by certain patches and tears in the cushions and linings of the carriages. Mr. Gotobed smiled and bowed and declared that everything was "fixed convenient" Then the Senator followed the old lady into one carriage; Mr. Morton followed alone into the other; and they were driven away ...
— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope
... is his present plight and the loss of his good and thou hast with thee none save thyself and thy slave-girl Sukub; so which of us two would dare prate of thee, and we thy handmaids?" With this, she bowed her head for a while ground-wards and the damsels said to her, "O my lady, it is our rede that thou send after him and show him grace and suffer him not ask of the sordid; for how bitter is such begging!" So she accepted ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... his hand and laid it gently on the old man's brow. The hoary head bowed to the summons, and, with a soft sigh, the glad spirit fled to that region where suffering ...
— The Coxswain's Bride - also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... "may God send you furthering winds, Sir Mortimer and Sir John, and make their galleons and galliasses, their caravels and carracks, as bowed corn before you! Those of your company who are to die, may they die cleanly, and those who are to live, live nobly, and may not one of you fall into the hands of ...
— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston
... have no new book this year; he steps aside with a gallant bow for Lord Ernest. I have been turning pages in Forty Years On and reading about such matters as the Copley curse, school life at Harrow where Shifner and others bowed the knee to Baal, bull fights in Peru and adventures in the Klondike. Personally the most amusing moments of the book I find to be those in which Lord Ernest describes his experiments in speaking ancient Greek in modern Greece. But this is perhaps ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton


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