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. To bend one's upper body forward and down while standing or kneeling.

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

2. 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)
• Turkish: eğilmek (tr)

Anagrams

• overbend