bow down

verb

1. To bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.

   “8 Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. 9 Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And shewing mercy vnto thousands, of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements.”

   “You were all so powerful, so overwhelming. The whole world bowed down before you.”

2. To submit to another; to acknowledge one's inferiority to another.

   “You better bow down to my skills.”