All bow synonyms

verb bow

• submit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
• nod — to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.
• hunch — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• kowtow — to act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.
• acquiesce — If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do.
• comply — If someone or something complies with an order or set of rules, they are in accordance with what is required or expected.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• relent — to soften in feeling, temper, or determination; become more mild, compassionate, or forgiving.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• accept — If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• succumb — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
• capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
• give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
• incline — to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
• dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
• cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
• curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
• stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• genuflect — to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
• arch — An arch is a structure that is curved at the top and is supported on either side by a pillar, post, or wall.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• bob — If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water.
• curtsy — If a woman or a girl curtsies, she lowers her body briefly, bending her knees and sometimes holding her skirt with both hands, as a way of showing respect for an important person.
• round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
• droop — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
• cave — A cave is a large hole in the side of a cliff or hill, or one that is under the ground.
• knuckle — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
• knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.