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Not vanquished
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unbowed
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Word definitions for unbowed in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbowed \Un*bowed"\, a. [Pref. un- not + bowed.] Not bent or arched; not bowed down. --Byron.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Unbowed (; lit. "Broken Arrow") is a 2011 South Korean courtroom drama film starring Ahn Sung-ki and Park Won-sang . It was inspired by the true story of Kim Myung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not bowed; erect or upright. 2 Not subdued or deterred.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "not bent," also figuratively "not subdued," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of bow (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES bloody/bloodied but unbowed ▪ The great man was bloody but unbowed. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The great man was bloody but unbowed .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" [syn: straight , unbent , upright ] not forced to bow down to a conqueror
Usage examples of unbowed.
Bloody but unbowed, Caine returns to Ankhar very few minutes from now, for a final desperate attempt to his wife from the horrors of amplitude decay.
Using his one good arm and his scarred but unbowed tail, Faraerth pointed to the battle-ravaged stump on his right side.
Owen stood triumphant amidst a pile of the dead and the dying, bleeding from countless wounds but still unbowed, laughing as he watched the surviving mercenaries turn and run rather than face him.
In the saddle, he rode unbowed, as though he had gained new strength and the weariness of the journey could no longer touch him.
The unbowed young hero was in the middle, trussed hand and foot with nets, thongs and chains, and behind him was a rabble of youths, tugging at him, hitting him and mocking him.
It is the breakdown of this regime or the rise of new and as yet unbowed adversaries that leads to the reactive use of force.
He sat upright, a giant whose frame was utterly unbowed with the eighty and more years weighing on it.
Bloodied but unbowed, he went to the library to pick up some books on Judaism.
They knelt before him, a ragged but defiant looking crew, half naked, sweating profusely in the heat, but unbowed by his appraisal.
I was beaten, bloody, and certainly not unbowed, but there was work to do.
The face, though seamed and wind-darkened, still was handsome and the unbowed, muscular body bore the scars of a warrior.
In 1987, the twentieth anniversary of Arusha, he showed himself unbowed.
Resolute ducked his head to make it through a small opening and Will followed, his head unbowed.
Extinguisher again, erect, proud and unbowed by the cruel rigors of the Lacandon jungle.
Beneath the bludgeonings of Fate, his head is bloody but unbowed, as the fellow said.