bend over

English

Verb

bend over (third-person singular simple present bends over, present participle bending over, simple past and past participle bent over)

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.

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)
Ladino: abokarse
Japanese: 身を屈める (みをかがめる, mi o kagameru)
Russian: наклоня́ться (ru) impf (naklonjátʹsja), наклони́ться (ru) pf (naklonítʹsja), нагиба́ться (ru) impf (nagibátʹsja), нагну́ться (ru) pf (nagnútʹsja)
Spanish: agacharse (es)
Turkish: eğilmek (tr)

Anagrams

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