When the weather turned cold, the tears that he shed would become frozen like veins; the blood on his forehead from kowtowing would also freeze and would not drip.
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Kowtow
/ˈkaʊˌtaʊ/
Synonyms for "kowtow" (118 found)
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Noun(6 words)
Related words (59)
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10 entriesacquiescencecompliancefull kowtowgenuflectiongrovelingpanderingpartial kowtowpolitical capitulationprostrationservile posture
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7 entriesceremonial kowtowcultural kowtowgroveling kowtowhabitual kowtowpolitical kowtowpublic kowtowritual kowtow
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I suppose you're going to be nice to Odie and kowtow to Jon and lick the mailman's boots! I don't like you already.
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The letter to Razin contained another thought that preoccupied Stalin in the first months after the war: the need to avoid “kowtowing to the West,” including showing “unwarranted respect” for the “military authorities of Germany.”
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Three elders dressed in their long silk ceremonial gowns perform the kowtow before the altar in their clan ancestral hall.
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