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  • to kneel
Trad. 長跪
  • to kneel as in prayer (without sitting back on the heels)
  • (of a soccer player) to knee slide after scoring a goal
  • (slang) to drop to one's knees in contrition or surrender (usu. figurative)
  • (literary) (of a lamb) to kneel to suckle at the breast (used as a metaphor for filial piety)
  • to crouch (of animal)
  • to kneel down
  • to sink to one's knees
  • to grovel
  • to sit kneeling with legs folded underneath the thighs and buttocks resting on the heels
  • to kowtow
  • to kneel and worship
  • a prayer mat
  • a carpet for kneeling
Trad. 跪禱
  • to kneel in prayer
Trad. 罰跪
  • to punish by protracted kneeling
  • to kneel
  • to go down on one's knees
  • to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)

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