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Antonyms for bowed out

Grammar : Verb
Spell : bou
Phonetic Transcription : baÊŠ

Definition of bowed out

Origin :
  • Old English bugan "to bend, to bow down, to bend the body in condescension," also "to turn back" (class II strong verb; past tense beag, past participle bogen), from Proto-Germanic *bugon (cf. Dutch buigen, Middle Low German bugen, Old High German biogan, German biegen, Gothic biugan "to bend," Old Norse boginn "bent"), from *beugen, from PIE root *bheug- (3) "to bend," with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects (cf. Sanskrit bhujati "bends, thrusts aside;" Old High German boug, Old English beag "a ring"). The noun in this sense is first recorded 1650s. Related: Bowed; bowing. Bow out "withdraw" is from 1942.
  • verb back out
Example sentences :
  • We were bowed out of the custom-house with our packages unopened.
  • Extract from : « A Wayfarer in China » by Elizabeth Kendall
  • They rose and left the room, and were bowed out by the head-waiter.
  • Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
  • On the moment when the sitting was over, the patron was bowed out.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) » by Elbert Hubbard
  • An old wall, bowed out with age and the weight behind it, flanked the road in this part.
  • Extract from : « Robert Falconer » by George MacDonald
  • And so, very affably, I was bowed out of my free-lance life, the which I had entered by way of the north-eastern slums.
  • Extract from : « The Record of Nicholas Freydon » by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
  • The Reverend Mother bowed out the last of her guests, and retired to her own room well satisfied.
  • Extract from : « Hyacinth » by George A. Birmingham
  • And so Robert was bowed out, to perambulate the streets in rather bitter humour.
  • Extract from : « Cedar Creek » by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
  • It consists of an iron shank, to which is bolted two thin strips, bowed out in to the form of a drawing pen.
  • Extract from : « Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells » by Ernest Spon
  • Ere her mother could make light of the suggestion, Old Tom had jumped up, and bowed out his arm.
  • Extract from : « Evan Harrington, Complete » by George Meredith
  • "Your Highness has now given me my only inducement not to return," I answered, as I bowed out of the room.
  • Extract from : « Pelham, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Synonyms for bowed out

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