Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to kowtow
Participle: kowtowed
Gerund: kowtowing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | kowtow |
| you | kowtow |
| he;she;it | kowtows |
| we | kowtow |
| you | kowtow |
| they | kowtow |
Perfect
| I | have kowtowed |
| you | have kowtowed |
| he;she;it | has kowtowed |
| we | have kowtowed |
| you | have kowtowed |
| they | have kowtowed |
Past
| I | kowtowed |
| you | kowtowed |
| he;she;it | kowtowed |
| we | kowtowed |
| you | kowtowed |
| they | kowtowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had kowtowed |
| you | had kowtowed |
| he;she;it | had kowtowed |
| we | had kowtowed |
| you | had kowtowed |
| they | had kowtowed |
Future
| I | will kowtow |
| you | will kowtow |
| he;she;it | will kowtow |
| we | will kowtow |
| you | will kowtow |
| they | will kowtow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have kowtowed |
| you | will have kowtowed |
| he;she;it | will have kowtowed |
| we | will have kowtowed |
| you | will have kowtowed |
| they | will have kowtowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | kowtow |
| you | kowtow |
| he;she;it | kowtow |
| we | kowtow |
| you | kowtow |
| they | kowtow |
Perfect
| I | have kowtowed |
| you | have kowtowed |
| he;she;it | have kowtowed |
| we | have kowtowed |
| you | have kowtowed |
| they | have kowtowed |
Imperfect
| I | kowtowed |
| you | kowtowed |
| he;she;it | kowtowed |
| we | kowtowed |
| you | kowtowed |
| they | kowtowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had kowtowed |
| you | had kowtowed |
| he;she;it | had kowtowed |
| we | had kowtowed |
| you | had kowtowed |
| they | had kowtowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would kowtow |
| you | would kowtow |
| he;she;it | would kowtow |
| we | would kowtow |
| you | would kowtow |
| they | would kowtow |
Perfect
| I | would have kowtowed |
| you | would have kowtowed |
| he;she;it | would have kowtowed |
| we | would have kowtowed |
| you | would have kowtowed |
| they | would have kowtowed |
Imperative
| you | kowtow |
| we | Let's kowtow |
| you | kowtow |
Verbs conjugated like 'kowtow'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'kowtow'
kotow,
bowwow,
powwow,
bestow,
betow,
borrow,
botox,
Botox,
bottom,
cotton,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From either Cantonese 叩頭 /叩头 (kau³ tau⁴) or Mandarin 叩頭 /叩头 (kòutóu). Literally, “knock head”. See: Cantonese '
叩頭'.
Sample Sentences
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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. [2013, Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, Jessey J. C. Choo, Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 645:]
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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. [1984 December 30, Jim Davis, Garfield (comic):]
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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.” [2015, Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 265:]