genuflect
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image
Types & categories
- bow hypernym
Related & opposite
- genuflection derivation
Sense 2 verb
bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
Types & categories
- bow hypernym
Related & opposite
- genuflection derivation
- kowtow derivation
- scrape derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | genuflection |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bow |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | genuflection |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | kowtow |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | scrape |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | bow |