0 to lower your head or body in fear, often while moving backwards:
Stop cowering! I'm not going to hit you.
1 to bend down or move backward with your head down because you are frightened:
Investigative journalists and rebel spies cower in the shadows.
The state's power to punish did not then cause people to cower into submission.
The cowering "lamb" reveals his teeth in fear.
I really am delighted that we are not cowered by those threats.
Secondly, we must recognise that one result of cowering behind high tariff walls is that retaliatory tariffs are imposed.
I found myself cowering in the ditch in sheer terror the other day in order to let one of these great trains get past.
We cower behind the fact that we have no language to describe it and, finding no language to describe it, limply assume it won't happen.
She cowered under a table in fear of her life.
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