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单词 genuflect
释义 gen·u·flect
\ˈjenyəˌflekt\ intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Late Latin genuflectere to genuflect, from Latin genu knee + flectere to bend
1.
 a. : to bend the knee
 b. : to touch the knee to the floor or ground especially in worship
  < genuflect and walk out of the chapel — Joseph Dever >
2. : to be servilely or humbly obedient or respectful : kowtow
 < each political party has genuflected before it — B.M.Bowie >
 < genuflected before the … bureaucrats and rewrote their poems — Harvey Breit >
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