"kowtow" meaning in Anglais

See kowtow in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-kowtow.wav Forms: to kowtow [infinitive], kowtows [present, third-person, singular], kowtowed [preterite], kowtowed [participle, past], kowtowing [participle, present], kotow
  1. Agir de manière servile et soumise. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-kowtow-en-verb-3UZc4KMN Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais
  2. S’agenouiller et baiser le sol du front. Tags: literally
    Sense id: fr-kowtow-en-verb-BG3qnm9p
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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