doblegar
beat ; overcome ; humble ; overpower ; subjugate.
Flexible moulds made of laminated paper called 'flong' were first used in Lyons in 1829 and were blotting and tissue paper pasted together, and the mould was formed by beating damp flong on the face of the type.
Analytical cataloguing seeks to overcome physical packaging.
After nine long years, Pakistan's fourth military dictator, General Musharraf, had been humbled by the masses.
She was overpowered by a feeling of impotence.
Only majorities have the power to terrorize and subjugate minority groups.
doblegar a Alguien doblegarse
bring + Nombre + to + Posesivo + knees
genuflect
give in
yield
knuckle under (to)
Showing a happy and fulfilled facade, she is hiding a dark secret that could eventually bring her to her knees.
This team genuflects to nobody.
At first he tried self-treatment by rubbing it with the tail of a cat, but eventually gave in and consulted a local physician.
She actually had an impulse to go and tell the staff to cast off their chains; she did not, however, yield to it.
This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that trashes its own values and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.
doblegarse a
bow down before
bow to
The problem was that the stiff-necked men of science refused to bow down before the idols of political expediency.
In connection with that, I think it's the greater part of wisdom in a situation like this to bow to those who know more about the matter than I do.
doblegarse ante
tug + Posesivo + forelock at/to
touch + Posesivo + forelock at/to
The system had treated my grandfather like dirt and kept him tugging his forelock at those whose only virtue was to have been born to wealthier familes.
'Aye, aye, sir,' answered the cook, and touching his forelock, he disappeared at once in the direction of his galley = "Sí, sí, señor," respondió el cocinero, y agachando la cabeza, desapareció al instante en dirección a la cocina.
