Bowed-down

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Weighed down with troubles; dejected.

    "But, alas! those who are heirs of the future, destined to fill the earth with the immortal and the beautiful, what is their share in the present? the sad and the weary path—the bowed-down and broken heart!"

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"But, alas! those who are heirs of the future, destined to fill the earth with the immortal and the beautiful, what is their share in the present? the sad and the weary path—the bowed-down and broken heart!"

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