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Definition of genuflect:

To bend the knee, as in worship.

Synonyms:

scrape up, lionize, bootlick, grate, bow and scrape (to someone), truckle, bend the knee, scratch up, kiss, suck up, obeisance, kotow, kowtow, scratch, come up, curtsy, scrape, stoop, bob, salute, kneel, skin, fawn over, fawn, toady, grovel.

comply (part of speech: verb)
- cave,
- fulfill,
- submit,
- obey,
- surrender,
- capitulate,
- assent,
- consent,
- respect,
- accept,
- succumb,
- comply,
- defer,
- cede,
- adhere,
- knuckle under,
- bend,
- observe,
- conform,
- bow,
- concur,
- yield,
- agree,
- acquiesce,
- kowtow

Usage examples:

But devotion is to be found in acts of different kinds, both in corporal acts, for example, and in spiritual; thus a man is said to meditate devoutly, for instance, or to genuflect devoutly.

- "On Prayer and The Contemplative Life", St. Thomas Aquinas.
I always cross myself and genuflect when I go into a Roman Catholic church, as a mark of respect, but Jones and Gogin say that any one can see I am not an old hand at it.

- "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.