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bowing down

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“Everyone in the world is kissing the ring and essentially bowing down,” he says.

You are all besotted—hag-ridden—drunkards sitting in the stocks, and bowing down to the said stocks, and making a god thereof.

A lonely man was bowing down there, whose face I did not see.

Duryodhana groaned heavily: his heart was oppressed with grief, and, bowing down his head, he died sorrowing.

Bowing down upon the knees while drinking from a stream or a bubbling spring (fowwar) is the prevailing custom in Syria.

But how can we help bowing down at your feet if you are our benefactor, and a real father to us?

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On this page you'll find 152 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bow down, such as: admire, adore, revere, venerate, apotheosize, and canonize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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