"bend the knee" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bends the knee",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bending the knee",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent the knee",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent the knee",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bend<,,bent> the knee"
      },
      "expansion": "bend the knee (third-person singular simple present bends the knee, present participle bending the knee, simple past and past participle bent the knee)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, “The North Remembers”, in Game of Thrones, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane)",
          "text": "Joffrey, Renly, Robb Stark: they're all thieves. They'll bend the knee or I'll destroy them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To submit to another's authority."
      ],
      "id": "en-bend_the_knee-en-verb-zw31WzBt",
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To submit to another's authority."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "ajupir-se"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "agemolir-se"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "順從"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shùncóng",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "顺从"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "polvistua"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "courber l’échine"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "se soumettre"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "gónu kámptō",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "γόνυ κάμπτω"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hiza o kussuru",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "word": "膝を屈する"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "submit to another's authority",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "iść na pasku"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/En-au-bend_the_knee.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bend the knee"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bends the knee",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bending the knee",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent the knee",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent the knee",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bend<,,bent> the knee"
      },
      "expansion": "bend the knee (third-person singular simple present bends the knee, present participle bending the knee, simple past and past participle bent the knee)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, “The North Remembers”, in Game of Thrones, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane)",
          "text": "Joffrey, Renly, Robb Stark: they're all thieves. They'll bend the knee or I'll destroy them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To submit to another's authority."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To submit to another's authority."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/En-au-bend_the_knee.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "ajupir-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "agemolir-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "順從"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shùncóng",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "顺从"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "polvistua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "courber l’échine"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "se soumettre"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "gónu kámptō",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "γόνυ κάμπτω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hiza o kussuru",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "word": "膝を屈する"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "submit to another's authority",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "iść na pasku"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bend the knee"
}