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bowed¹

  • /baʊd/

Rhymes with -aʊd

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of bow

bowed²

  • /boʊd/ US
  • /bəʊd/ UK

Sounds like bode · Rhymes with -əʊd

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of bow

adjective

  1. not comparable Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments). The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle.
  2. not comparable Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments). The value 16/49 is evidently of importance as it corresponds to the first principal mode of vibration of a bowed string.
  3. in compounds, not comparable Equipped with a bow (weapon). […] the deadly fight / At Sparta sing, that nigh / Kithairon’s heiglits was fought, whereby / The Persian host of bent-bowed archers came / To ruin; […]
  4. not comparable Bent or curved. Replace any badly bowed studs, or fix a bowed stud by making a cut into the bowed area, forcing the stud straight, and bracing it with a 1x cleat (see the bottom illustration at right).

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Closest in meaning: arced, arciform, arcuate, curving, curved, arched, bandy, bent, bowlegged, inclined, bandy-legged, arching, submissive, bowleg, unfit, unerect

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@misc{bowed_2026,
  title = {bowed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bowed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}