cower
to crouch, as in fear or shame.
Origin of cower
1Other words for cower
Other words from cower
- cow·er·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use cower in a sentence
Actually, the fact that it cowers under a phalanx makes it infinitely more pitying.
The citizen upon whose past loyalty the slightest suspicion can be cast cowers for safety close to his hearth-stone.
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt | David Miller DeWittThe lama dropped wearily to the ground, much as a heavy fruit-eating bat cowers, and returned to his rosary.
Kim | Rudyard KiplingThe new-born chicken cowers beneath the shadow of the hawk, because one hawk is like another.
Human Nature In Politics | Graham WallasBefore a blow from his master the slave helplessly cowers, and takes refuge in silent and inert despair.
The mother cowers behind her sewing-machine; and her seam runs somewhat awry.
Egholm and his God | Johannes Buchholtz
British Dictionary definitions for cower
/ (ˈkaʊə) /
(intr) to crouch or cringe, as in fear
Origin of cower
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