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verb/bəʊ/
/bəʊ/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bow | /bəʊ/ /bəʊ/ |
| he / she / it bows | /bəʊz/ /bəʊz/ |
| past simple bowed | /bəʊd/ /bəʊd/ |
| past participle bowed | /bəʊd/ /bəʊd/ |
| -ing form bowing | /ˈbəʊɪŋ/ /ˈbəʊɪŋ/ |
- bow (something) to use a bow to play a musical instrument that has stringsWord OriginOld English boga ‘bend, bow, arch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boog and German Bogen, also to bow1.
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