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Synonyms for bow out

Grammar : Verb
Spell : bou
Phonetic Transcription : baÊŠ

Définition of bow 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 :
  • "Her stern will dip under when we haul her bow out," said Tom.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 » by Various
  • Take my place, Ferdinand, while I work the bow out to sea again.
  • Extract from : « Historic Girlhoods » by Rupert S. Holland
  • On which the King turned on his heel, and I made my bow out of the presence-chamber.
  • Extract from : « Barry Lyndon » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Perhaps if we get her bow out of water a little shell do better.
  • Extract from : « The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp » by Ross Kay
  • It grows longer and because it is held firmly at the ends it must bow out at the center.
  • Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills
  • And soon we stood on the deck of the Orion, which vessel pointed her bow out to sea.
  • Extract from : « The Voodoo Gold Trail » by Walter Walden
  • I take the bow out of the hand of the dead—the symbol of honour, of courage, of lordship.
  • Extract from : « The History of Antiquity, Volume IV (of 6) » by Max Duncker
  • As she spoke the bushes parted and a motor boat shoved her bow out into the stream.
  • Extract from : « The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat » by Grace Brooks Hill
  • Daoud drew his bow out again, picked a big Tartar with a drooping black mustache, and loosed an arrow at him.
  • Extract from : « The Saracen: Land of the Infidel » by Robert Shea
  • He used to shoot arrows with a bow out of the door of the house and hit a mark on a tree that was opposite him.
  • Extract from : « The King of Ireland's Son » by Padraic Colum

Antonyms for bow out

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