bend over

English

Verb

bend over (third-person singular simple present bends over, present participle bending over, simple past and past participle bent over)

1. (intransitive) To bend one's upper body forward and down while standing or kneeling.

   Troponyms: buckle over < double over

   I had to bend over to see all the way down there.

2. (intransitive) To submit to.

   You really bend over when the boss comes calling, don't you?

Synonyms

• stoop

Derived terms

• bend over backwards

Translations

to bend one's upper body forward

Azerbaijani: əyilmək (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 俯身 (zh) (fǔshēn) Dutch: bukken (nl) Esperanto: kliniĝi Finnish: kumartua (fi) French: se pencher (fr), se replier (fr) German: sich bücken (de) Hungarian: lehajol (hu), előrehajol (hu) Japanese: 身を屈める (みをかがめる, mi o kagameru) Ladino: abokarse Russian: наклоня́ться (ru) impf (naklonjátʹsja), наклони́ться (ru) pf (naklonítʹsja), нагиба́ться (ru) impf (nagibátʹsja), нагну́ться (ru) pf (nagnútʹsja) Spanish: agacharse (es), doblegarse (es) Thai: ก้ม (th) (gôm) Turkish: eğilmek (tr)

Anagrams

• overbend