Synonyms:
- apple-polish,
- avoid,
- bend,
- bend the knee,
- bend the neck,
- bend to,
- blench,
- blink,
- bootlick,
- bow,
- bow and scrape,
- bow down,
- bow to,
- brown-nose,
- cower,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cringe to,
- croodle,
- crouch,
- crouch before,
- curtsy,
- defer,
- do homage,
- do obeisance,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- draw in,
- duck,
- eat dirt,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- fawn,
- flatter,
- flinch,
- funk,
- genuflect,
- get down,
- grovel,
- hang back,
- hunch,
- hunch down,
- jib,
- kneel,
- kneel to,
- knuckle to,
- kowtow,
- lick the dust,
- lickspittle,
- pull back,
- pull in,
- pull out,
- quail,
- quiver,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retract,
- retreat,
- scrouch down,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- skulk,
- slaver,
- slink,
- sneak,
- squat,
- start aside,
- start back,
- stoop,
- swerve,
- toadeat,
- toady,
- tremble,
- truckle,
- truckle to,
- turn aside,
- wallow,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- welter,
- wince,
- withdraw