cower
verb (used without object)
to crouch, as in fear or shame.
has cowered
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present perfectof cower (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Menadism, Sansculottism has cowered into guard-houses, barracks of Flandre, to the light of cheerful fire; failing that, to churches, office-houses, sentry-boxes, wheresoever wretchedness can find a lair.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
In this miserable delusion he has cowered there for five and thirty years.
From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The slim greyhound, constantly trembling, has cowered down in a corner.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
