bow down (English, verb)
expansion: bow down (third-person singular simple present bows down, present participle bowing down, simple past and past participle bowed down)
Senses:
glosses: To bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To submit to another; to acknowledge one's inferiority to another.
tags: intransitive
slang
Forms:
form: bows down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bowing down
tags: participle
present
form: bowed down
tags: participle
past
form: bowed down
tags: past