About The Word Cower
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Cower
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What's The Definition Of Cower?
[v] show submission or fear
[v] crouch or curl up Synonyms | Synonyms for Cower: crawl | creep | cringe | fawn | grovel | huddle Related Terms | Find terms related to Cower: apple-polish | bend | bend the knee | blench | bootlick | bow | bow and scrape | crawl | creep | cringe | crouch | dodder | fawn | flatter | flinch | get down | grovel | halt | hunch | hunch down | kneel | kowtow | lick the dust | lickspittle | limp | quail | quiver | recoil | scrouch down | shake | shrink | skulk | slink | sneak | squat | stoop | teeter | toadeat | toady | totter | tremble | truckle | wallow | welter | wince See Also | bend | bow | crouch | flex | stoop Cower In Webster's Dictionary \Cow"er\ (-?r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cowered} (-?rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Cowering}.] [Cf. Icel. kera to doze, liequiet,
Sw. kura, Dan. kure, G. kauern to cower, W. cwrian.]
To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to
quail; to sink through fear.
Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. --Dryden.
Like falcons, cowering on the nest. --Goldsmith.
\Cow"er\ (kou"?r), v. t. To cherish with care. [Obs.] |
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