unbowed

From un- +‎ bowed.

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• Rhymes: -aʊd

unbowed (comparative more unbowed, superlative most unbowed)

1. Not bowed; erect or upright.
2. (figurative) Not subdued or deterred.
   • 1998 July 3, James Brooke, “Anti-Government Freemen Are Found Guilty of Fraud”, in New York Times, retrieved 8 August 2012:

     Unbowed after two years in jail, nine of the defendants boycotted the trial, refusing even to talk to their lawyers.

   • 2024 July 15, Charles M. Blow, “How the Attempted Assassination of Trump Could Change the Campaign”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It created an indelible image and captured the essence of Trump’s MAGA movement: under attack but defiant, bloody but unbowed.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈbəʊd/

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unbowed

1. simple past and past participle of unbow

• bewound