BOWED DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowed down mean? 

• BOWED DOWN (adjective)
  The adjective BOWED DOWN has 1 sense:

1. heavily burdened with work or cares

  Familiarity information: BOWED DOWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWED DOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heavily burdened with work or cares

Synonyms:

bowed down; loaded down; overburdened; weighed down

Context example:

weighed down with cares

Similar:

burdened (bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities)

 Context examples 

Many of the trees under which we passed had their branches bowed down with fruit, some of which were of familiar sorts, while other varieties were new.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the beasts bowed down to the Lion as their King, and he promised to come back and rule over them as soon as Dorothy was safely on her way to Kansas.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Before such he bowed down and marvelled, knowing that they were beyond the deliberate creation of any man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. Wickfield held it for a little while in his, with his head bowed down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I bowed down to the board of the table, and humbly answered “that I was my master’s slave: but, if I were at my own disposal, I should be proud to devote my life to her majesty’s service.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Papa was very much depressed then, and more bowed down by care than ever you or I have seen him; but he seemed relieved by this expedient of the partnership, though at the same time he seemed hurt by it and ashamed of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)