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bend over backwards
Overview of verb bend-over-backwards
The verb bend over backwards has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. fall over backwards, bend over backwards -- (try very hard to please someone; "She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law")
Antonyms of verb bend-over-backwards
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bend-over-backwards
1 sense of bend over backwards
Sense 1
fall over backwards, bend over backwards
=> act, behave, do
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb bend-over-backwards
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bend-over-backwards
1 sense of bend over backwards
Sense 1
fall over backwards, bend over backwards
=> act, behave, do
'Cause To' of verb bend-over-backwards
Derived Forms of verb bend-over-backwards
Domain of verb bend-over-backwards
Domain Terms of verb bend-over-backwards
Familiarity of verb bend-over-backwards
bend over backwards used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb bend-over-backwards
1 sense of bend over backwards
Sense 1
fall over backwards, bend over backwards
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb bend-over-backwards
1 sense of bend over backwards
Sense 1
fall over backwards, bend over backwards
> act, behave, do
=> act involuntarily, act reflexively
=> fall over backwards, bend over backwards
=> presume
=> vulgarize, vulgarise
=> optimize, optimise
=> quack
=> menace
=> make
=> swagger, bluster, swash
=> freeze
=> wanton
=> romanticize
=> sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize, sentimentise
=> bungle
=> play, toy
=> act, play, act as
=> stooge
=> joke, jest
=> piffle
=> make
=> make as if
=> break down, lose it, snap
=> dally, dawdle
=> backslap
=> hugger mugger
=> sauce
=> footle
=> frivol, trifle
=> swell, puff up
=> follow
=> relax, loosen up
=> ramp, rage, storm
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb bend-over-backwards
Sense 1
fall over backwards, bend over backwards
=> act, behave, do
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