bend over

English

Verb

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

a man bending over

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

   Synonym: stoop

   Troponyms: buckle over < double over

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

2. (intransitive) To act submissively.

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

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bent,‎ over.

   Sandrita was bent over the sink doing the dishes.

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)
• Greek: σκύβω (el) (skývo)
• 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