Bend forward at the waist
• To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. • To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. • To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. • To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue. • To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.