1. bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image • Derivationally related forms: genuflection, genuflexion • Hypernyms: bow • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s 2. bend the knees and bow in a servile manner • Syn: scrape, kowtow • Derivationally related forms: genuflection, genuflexion, kowtow (for: kowtow), scrape (for: scrape), scraping (for: scrape) • Hypernyms: bow • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP
