Usually means: Shrink in fear; feel intimidated.
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  1. cower: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cower: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cower: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cower, cower: Wordnik
  7. cower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cower: Wiktionary
  9. cower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cower: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cower, cower: Dictionary.com
  13. cower: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cower: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cower: Rhymezone
  18. Cower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cower: Free Dictionary
  21. cower: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. cower: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

Similar:
cringe, huddle, creep, grovel, crawl, fawn, curb, crouch, flinch, scringe, more...

Opposite:
bold, brave, courageous, daring, fearless, gallant, intrepid, valiant

Types:
crouch, flinch, wince, shrink, more...

Phrases:
cower down, cower in fear, opposite of cower, one way to cower, cower in on myself, more...

Adjectives:
open, longer, briny, deep, great, bravest, chinese, last, grown, righteous, robbing

Colors:
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Similar:
cringe, huddle, creep, grovel, crawl, fawn, curb, crouch, flinch, scringe, more...

Opposite:
bold, brave, courageous, daring, fearless, gallant, intrepid, valiant

Types:
crouch, flinch, wince, shrink, more...

Phrases:
cower down, cower in fear, opposite of cower, one way to cower, cower in on myself, to cower in the corner, encouraging them to cower, more...

Adjectives:
open, longer, briny, deep, great, bravest, chinese, last, grown, righteous, robbing

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     midnight blue, more...



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