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vb. (present participle of bow out English)
Usage examples of "bowing out".
No one deigned to answer her question, but at the Sud's command two more slaves appeared and, bowing out the villagers, closed the castle door.
Pamela told Mom in Hollywood that she and Dad had had an innocent romance, and that after Warren's death she was bowing out.
It's probably a good thing for the gentlemen's toes that I've been bowing out.
The back of the house was constructed of plain walls bowing out from the main house like a bubble.
He had mixed feelings about bowing out and leaving Carolyn to do the job.
The whole block, street and all, had seemed to shift positions, bowing out to curve what had once been straight.
Is she bowing out with grace, or beginning a more insidious campaign?
There was something in the Times the other morning about his bowing out of a hostile takeover proceeding.