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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for cower

crouch or curl up

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show submission or fear

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'I told him that I am your daughter, trained by you, will neither cower down, nor yield to pressure and nothing will deter me from taking up the cudgels against transgression and injustice.
Do we cower in closets, fight among ourselves, ask meekly to be allowed scraps from the table of equality?
It is something that hospital caregivers experience far too often and from which families sometimes cower. The draining away of life as age and the disease takes its final toll.
The other sisters made it over to the house, but Wate, who had sprained her ankle, had to cower between a bush and the convent wall as the rebels exchanged gunfire with the military.
We've seen honest and hard-working people cower before the drug sellers.
Voiceless the animals cower in pain They are creatures at the mercy of the UK's purse, And as we are about to enter another new year, Animal welfare standards promise to get worse.
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The drama of the site is expressed by the building, an irregular horseshoe that embraces an inner court, rising at the apex to form an 11-storey cower. In front of it straddling the riverside wharf is a steel structure; inspired by a travelling dockside crane, it is made up of balcony decks linked by bridges to the tower apartments and held within a vertical frame of V-shaped members.
Then the 21-year-old victim and his fellow cashier, a 37-year-old woman, were made to cower at the back of the Victoria Wines shop, in Camp Hill Road, Nuneaton, while the store was ransacked.
-ACCORDING to his TV show theme, Spider-Man does whatever a spider can...so why doesn't he move really slowly and cower under bathroom furniture?
The 14-year-old forced one woman to cower in fear in her kitchen and left other people in tears as she caused havoc in the Abbey Hey area of Manchester, leading a group in racist abuse, criminal damage and intimidation.
He is seen running towards the dogs as they squabble over a dead pheasant, his face twisted with fury, waving his stick as the dogs cower with terror.
They speak, we just cower. It's hysterical that a nation who eat snails, frogs and horses can have the brass neck to dictate what another nation chooses to eat and how they eat it.
It's better to fight and lose than to cower in the corner.