Cower

Definition: Cower

Cower

Verb

1. Crouch or curl up.

2. Show submission or fear.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cower" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Synonyms: Cower

Cowardice

Verb: quail; (fear); be cowardly; Adjective:, be a coward; Noun: funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away; (avoid); show, the white feather.

Depression

Sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline; (be horizontal).

Fear

Hesitate; (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk; (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly; (avoid).

Servility

Sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up.

Crosswords: Cower

A crevice in which to cower, only scuttling from the shadows to devour a victim already ensnared in your cowardly trap (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

But I've been there I can see it cower (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Love was not made to cower and crouch like an English housemaid whose knees are callused with scrubbing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cower": cower away ♦ cower down. Additional references.

Afrikaans

hurk (crouch, squat), ineenkrimp (shrink). (various references)

Albanian

strukem (cringe, crouch, hide, snuggle), mblidhem kruspull (crouch, double up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏جثم مرتعدا, ‏إنكمش (contract, cringe, retract, seize, shrink). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снижавам се (drop, sink), треперя (dither, jitter, judder, niddle-noddle, palpitate, pulsate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, thrill, tremble, tremor, vibrate, waver), прикляквам (squat). (various references)

Czech

choulit se (cringe, huddle, nestle), přikrèit se, krèit se (cringe, crouch). (various references)

Dutch

in elkaar duiken (crouch, squat), hurken (crouch, squat). (various references)

Esperanto

kuntiriĝi (shrink), kaŭri (crouch, squat). (various references)

Faeroese

húka (crouch, squat). (various references)

Farsi 

چندک زدن , ازترس دولاشدن . (various references)

Finnish

kyyristyä (crouch, squat). (various references)

French

se tapir, se recroqueviller, être accroupi. (various references)

German

kauern (be huddled, crouch, squat), hocken (crouch, perch, sit about, sit around, squat, to crouch). (various references)

Greek 

μαζεύομαι (cluster, cringe, crouch, cuddle, gather), ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, knit, pucker, ruck, rumple, shrink, shrivel, wimple, wrinkle). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תכוץ (cringe, crouch, shrink, twitch). (various references)

Hungarian

meglapul (to couch, to cower, to crouch, to fly low, to lay low, to lurk), lekucorodik (to cower). (various references)

Indonesian

ketakutan (apprehension, dread, scare), berjongkok. (various references)

Italian

accasciarsi (collapse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

畏縮 (recoil, wince). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いしゅく (atrophy, contraction, dwarf, recoil, wince, withering). (various references)

Manx

creutchal (cowering). (various references)

Pig Latin

owercay.(various references)

Portuguese

estardecócoras (crouch, squat), estaragachado (crouch, squat), encolher-se (wilt), agachar-se (crouch, squat). (various references)

Romanian

se ghemui (crouch, cuddle, huddle up, nuzzle, snuggle, squat). (various references)

Russian 

приседать (crouch, duck a curtsy, duck curtsy, squat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naježiti se. (various references)

Spanish

encogerse de miedo, agazaparse (crouch), agacharse (bend, bob down, crouch, drop, drop down, duck, hunker down, squat, stoop), acurrucarse (crouch, huddle, snuggle), acobardarse (be chicken, be frightened, flinch, funk, quail). (various references)

Swedish

krypa ihop (cringe, cuddle up, curl up, snuggle). (various references)

Turkish

korkudan sinmek, dizlerinin bağı çözülmek, çömelmek (crouch, crouch down, hunch, hunch up, park oneself, squat), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references)

Ukrainian

щулитися (blink, peep), морщитися (crimple, shrink). (various references)

Welsh

cyrcydu (squat). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cower": cowered, cowering, cowers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cawder, cawey, cewar, cewe, cocer, coer, coew, coger, cojer, conwere, coser, couir, cowa, Cowap, cowar, cowark, cowe, cowel, cowerd, cowet, cowex, cowi, cowle, Cowler, cowper, cowrey, Cowte, coxer, Cvware, cwe, cwr, eower, fower, jower, ocaer, ocger, ocwer, scower, wower. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cero, core, crew, crow, wore.

-2 letters: cor, cow, orc, ore, owe, rec, roc, roe, row, woe.

-3 letters: er, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo.

+1 letter: cowers, cowier, cowrie, crowed, crower, escrow.

+2 letters: becrowd, chowder, clowder, cowered, cowherb, cowherd, cowries, cowrite, cowrote, crowded, crowder, crowdie, crowers, crowned, crowner, crownet, decrown, escrows, recrown, scowder, scowler.

+3 letters: becoward, becrowds, callower, capework, careworn, casework, caseworm, checkrow, chowders, clowders, clownery, colewort, cookware, cowberry, cowering, cowherbs, cowherds, cowinner, coworker, cowrites, crowders, crowdies, crowfeet, crowners, crownets, crowstep, decrowns, escrowed, fencerow, lacework, newcomer, recrowns, rockweed, scowders, scowlers, welcomer.