cower
verb (used without object)
to crouch, as in fear or shame.
will cower
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future tenseof cower.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Even if most reactions are not as extreme as the dog who tears out its nails while frantically scratching a door, many dogs will cower, pace and defecate indoors.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2016
"Let no individual, group, candidate or supporter imagine that cowardly and dark acts such as these will cower us," Mutunga told a news conference.
From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2013
There probably won't be an earthquake in Southern California today, but five million people will cower under furniture anyway.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is not a beast in existence that will attack a man if he keeps his eyes steady upon the animal, but will cower and sneak off, and so did the wolf.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
Sieyes old-Constituent comes; to make new Constitutions as many as wanted: for the rest, peering out of his clear cautious eyes, he will cower low in many an emergency, and find silence safest.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
