Antonyms for bowing
ˈboʊ ɪŋbow·ing

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1. • Gesture
   • Reverence

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1. bow, bowing, obeisancenoun

   bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting

   Antonyms:
   domineering

   Synonyms:
   obedience, bow, arc, stem, fore, obeisance, bowknot, prow, curtain call

2. bowingadjective

   managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument

   "the violinist's bowing was excellent"

   Antonyms:
   domineering

   Synonyms:
   bow, obeisance

3. bowed, bowingadjective

   showing an excessively deferential manner

   Antonyms:
   domineering

   Synonyms:
   arched, bowed, bandy-legged, arching, arciform, bandy, arced, bowlegged, arcuate, bowleg

How to use bowing in a sentence?

1. Gandhi:

   To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

2. Governor Huckabee:

   When an individual is faced with a decision of bowing to Caesar or bowing his knee to God – he has to take his stand and get on his knees to God instead of Caesar.

3. Matteo Salvini:

   Saving lives at sea is a duty, but transforming Italy into an enormous refugee camp is not, italy is done bowing its head and obeying. This time there's someone saying no.

4. Major Hodges:

   If you go at minimum rations of one meal a day, we were looking at numbers about 1800 meals that we needed to get in there, so, there was not the physical space in the cave to put 1800 meals and that would be 18 separate dive missions. Some of the rescued soccer team members bowing their heads respectfully in front of a sketch of the Thai NavySEAL Facebook Page SEAL diver who died while trying to rescue them. ( Thailand's Ministry of Health and the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital via AP).

5. Kim Shin-je:

   Kim Jong Un is surrounded by older people, and they're bowing in front of him. How can they yield to such a young person?

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