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  1. Cowered is the past tense and past participle of cower, which means to lower your head or body in fear, often while moving backwards. See how to use cowered in sentences and find related words and phrases.

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    • Cower

      to bend down or move backward with your head down because...

  2. Cower means to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for cower.

  3. to bend down or move backward with your head down because you are frightened: The dog cowered in the corner, realizing she’d done something wrong. (Definition of cower from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

  4. Cowered means to cringe in fear, as in cowered in the corner. It is not the same as coward, which means a person who lacks courage. See examples, pronunciation and translation of cowered.

  5. If, with growing clarity of vision, catastrophe ensued, then was time enough to shrink and cower. But even then Ruth could not speak; it had come in too tender a moment, had found her too exposed; she could only cower back. Cower definition: to crouch, as in fear or shame.. See examples of COWER used in a sentence.

  6. Cower is a verb that means to bend low and/or move backwards because you are frightened. See the pronunciation, picture, usage notes, synonyms and example sentences of cower.

  7. To cower is to shrink in fear. Whether they live in the country or city, any mouse will cower when a huge, hungry cat approaches. When you cower, you're not just afraid. You're so terrified that your whole body cringes, crouches, and shrinks in on itself to hide from the source of your fear.