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bowing down
adjective as in submissive
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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 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bowing down, such as: accommodating, deferential, dutiful, meek, obedient, and passive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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