kowtow - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

kneel collapse: supporting yourself on your knees; rest one's weight on one's knees; "In church you have to kneel during parts of the service"

genuflect collapse: bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image

salaam collapse: a deep bow; a Muslim form of salutation; greet with a salaam

crouch collapse: the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body; bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

curtsy collapse: bending at the knees; a gesture of respect made by women; make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand"; bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting

submission collapse: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another; (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing; an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?"; the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else; "the union was brought into submission"; "his submission to the will of God"

reverence collapse: a reverent mental attitude; regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"

creep collapse: a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot; a slow longitudinal movement or deformation; someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

fawn collapse: young deer; have fawns; "deer fawn"; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"; show submission or fear

crawl collapse: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"; a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"; a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick; move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"; swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"; be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"; feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

stoop collapse: an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward; small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house; carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"; sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"; descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"

Wordage.info