bend down

English

Verb

bend down (third-person singular simple present bends down, present participle bending down, simple past and past participle bent down)

1. To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.
   • 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue

     I muttered somethin' underneath my breath

     She studied the lines on my face

     I must admit I felt a little uneasy

     When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe

     Tangled up in blue.

Related terms

• bend over

Translations

to bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position

• Armenian: կռանալ (hy) (kṙanal)
• Aromanian: mi aplec
• Azerbaijani: əyilmək (az)
• Bulgarian: наве́ждам се impf (navéždam se), наведа́ се pf (navedá se)
• Catalan: acotar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俯下 (fǔxià), 彎腰／弯腰 (zh) (wānyāo)

• Dutch: bukken (nl)
• Esperanto: malleviĝi, kliniĝi, sin klini
• Finnish: kyykistyä (fi)
• French: se baisser (fr)
• Galician: agochar (gl), agachar (gl)
• German: sich bücken (de)
• Hungarian: lehajol (hu)
• Japanese: 屈む (ja) (kagamu)
• Old English: onhnīgan
• Portuguese: agachar-se
• Romanian: a se apleca (ro)
• Russian: нагиба́ться (ru) impf (nagibátʹsja), нагну́ться (ru) pf (nagnútʹsja)
• Spanish: agacharse (es)
• Ukrainian: нахиля́тися impf (naxyljátysja), нахили́тися pf (naxylýtysja)