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. David Ryan Polgar:

   The solution is not going to be to ... cower in fear and just kind of unplug yourself from life, it's going to be more about saying, 'OK, this is an opportunity where I should be educated in how to use the technology.' Technology is not the problem. The problem is our misuse or lack of education behind it.

2. Hillary Clinton:

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.