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Meanings of bowed down in English
Synonyms
Examples for "overburdened"
Examples for "overburdened"
1
Pakistan's security forces and its overburdened justice system are struggling to cope.
2
The nation's rail network is overburdened and its power grid is inadequate.
3
All three of the boys were now clinging to the overburdened animal.
4
Overworked fathers are quite as impossible in our scheme as overburdened mothers.
5
The plum and peach trees seemed almost overburdened with their delicious loads.
1
In minutes the captured liner, loaded down again, lifted toward the stars.
2
Their adversaries are loaded down with the record of the last legislature.
3
When we were all in, the boat was pretty well loaded down.
4
Darkies moving in, flatbed trucks loaded down with corn-shuck mattresses and pickaninnies.
5
His horse was loaded down with a hundred pounds of extra equipment.
1
Weakness at its health care and industrial divisions also weighed down results.
2
Energy shares fell with oil prices weighed down by growing U.S. output.
3
The sadness that weighed down Charlotte's heart felt impossible to carry alone.
4
The spirit of the conquering race, unquenchable, irresistible, weighed down the balance.
5
When the story ends the tired eyelids are weighed down with sleep.
Usage of bowed down in English
1
We walked together, with heads bowed down in thought, in deep silence.
2
Ears over ears they bowed down; ears above ears they rose up.
3
Her hands were folded in front of her, her head bowed down.
4
This I felt, and was greatly bowed down under the sense thereof.
5
Regent or shogun bowed down before it: divinity could not be usurped.
6
She took it, blushing with confusion, and bowed down to the earth.
7
He bowed down his head, and the dark shade left his brow.
8
Pelageya followed him mechanically, and she too bowed down to the ground.
9
And now he was back again-thetall, erect form so bowed down.
10
But Judas on a sudden bowed down, stretching forth his hands submissively:
11
Violante clasped her hands before her eyes, and bowed down her head.
12
I was bowed down with the deflation that comes after huge anticipation.
13
The Empress sat in the middle, and Claire bowed down to her.
14
Tears bedewed the face which she bowed down to her father's knee.
15
The Neapolitan bowed down his head almost to the ground; when, behold!
16
I can't, she said again, bowed down again with shame and dejection.
This collocation consists of:
Bowed down through the time
Bowed down across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare