0 present participle of cower --
1 to lower your head or body in fear, often while moving backwards: --
Stop cowering! I'm not going to hit you.
I am not cowering in any tent.
There are some powerful and evocative images on posters, showing children cowering on the stairs or hiding behind doors when domestic violence is occurring in the home.
If one visits a steel mill, one does not see men cowering in front of furnaces, although the plants are still tremendously dramatic places to visit.
They are cowering like petrified sheep in the most distant corner of a far field.
In the morning following the break-in many mink were found cowering in the corners of their pens through sheer fright.
We would not have to wait, as at present, until children are cowering in the corner of the classroom before anybody can do anything.
We shall never preserve that heritage by cowering behind our economic armaments.
You live under the cowering peace of the white flag, retreating from one position after another.
