intransitive. Of a person: To lower the body by inclining the trunk or the head and shoulders forward, sometimes bending the knee at the same time…

To assume a bent or crooked shape, position, or attitude; to bend. Obsolete exc. dialect.

intransitive. To bow down, stoop, bend over.

intransitive for reflexive. Of the body or limbs: To bend, crook, double up, yield. Also, of a person: To bow, bend down, crouch, drop down. Obsolete.

spec. Of persons: To bend the body, to stoop; to assume a bent or stooping posture. to bend over (preposition), i.e. with attention. to bend over…

intransitive. To curve, bend, bow.

intransitive. To bend, bow, cringe.

To bend the head or upper body forward and downward, esp. as a sign of reverence or courtesy; to stoop… intransitive.

To bend down, bow down, droop.

intransitive. To bring the nose towards the ground; to grovel. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To bend under stress or pressure. †Of persons: To bend, stoop, double up (obsolete).

intransitive. Scottish and English regional (north-western). To stoop, bend down, to duck; to descend, come down; to fall. Also figurative and with…

To bend the body, to stoop: see quots.

intransitive. To bend or stoop over; to bend too much. Obsolete. rare.