Antonyms for cower
ˈkaʊ ərcow·er

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. cower

   Antonyms:
   rise, stand, dare, face, confront

   Synonyms:
   shrink, stoop, crouch

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1. • Crouch

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1. huddle, cowerverb

   crouch or curl up

   "They huddled outside in the rain"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, huddle together, creep, huddle, fawn, grovel, cringe

2. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. cowerverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, squat, quail, cringe

How to use cower in a sentence?

1. Ashok Niyogi:

   Empty beer bottles, Crushed packets of Marlboro, Graffiti on stairwells, Blond stubble on heads stuffed with hate, Me, with my circumcised brown vision, Icy blood of undefined pedigree, I am marked for slaughter In the abattoir of the Gulag. I cower behind the Swastika Chained to my door.

2. Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad:

   I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation.

3. Brad Blakeman:

   This is a militant organization that wants to use this election cycle to be disruptive. It’s wrong and the more Democrats cower to them, the worse it gets.

4. Ray Bradbury:

   We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

5. Misty Buswell:

   Families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes.

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