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Meaning of झुकना in English

  • To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
  • To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
  • To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
  • To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
  • To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
  • To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
  • To jut over; to overhang.
  • To be inclined; to be directed.
  • To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  • A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
  • Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  • A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
  • The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
  • Hard, indurated clay; bind.
  • same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
  • A band.
  • One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
  • Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
  • An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.
  • Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
  • Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
  • To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
  • To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
  • of Bevel
  • Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
  • Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.
  • Alt. of Bevelled
  • To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
  • To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
  • To sign with the cross; to bless.
  • To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
  • A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
  • Disagreement; difference.
  • To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
  • To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
  • To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
  • Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
  • of Recline
  • Falling or turned downward; reclinate.
  • A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
  • An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
  • To droop, as the head.
  • To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
  • To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
  • of Slouch
  • Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.

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