Synonyms for cower
ˈkaʊ ərcow·er

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1. cower

   Synonyms:
   shrink, stoop, crouch

   Antonyms:
   rise, stand, dare, face, confront

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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

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1. cowerverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, cringe, fawn, stoop, squat, bend the knee

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1. cowerverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, squat, quail, cringe

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1. Hillary Clinton:

   This is a time for America to lead, not cower.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Maroofa Bibi:

   When the shelling starts, we rush to cower in the makeshift basements of our home, the power supply gets cut and we wait in the darkness with our terrified children, waiting for it be over.

5. 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.