bowed-down

adjective

Weighed down with troubles; dejected.

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Meanings

adjectivebowed-down (comparative more bowed-down, superlative most bowed-down)

comparative more bowed-down · superlative most bowed-down

  1. Weighed down with troubles; dejected.

    But, alas! those who are heirs of the future, destined to fill the earth with the immortal and the beautiful, what is their share in the present? the sad and the weary path—the bowed-down and broken heart!

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 73
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APA

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Chicago

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