Word Meanings - COWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COWER)

• Quail
• Sink
• shrink
• cower
• succumb
• crouch
• flinch
• blench
• tremble
• Skulk
• Hide
• sneak
• lurk
• abscond
• slink

Related words: (words related to COWER)

• ABSCOND
  1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• CROUCHED
  Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
• SNEAK
  1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• QUAIL
  pain, G. qual torment, OHG. quelan to suffer torment, Lith. gelti to 1. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Spenser. 2. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• SNEAKING
  Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
• SNEAKY
  Like a sneak; sneaking.
• FLINCH
  To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;
• ABSCONDENCE
  Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. Phillips.
• SHRINKER
  One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
• CROUCH
  creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to 1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely;
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• SKULK
  To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked
• COWER
  To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.
• SUCCUMB
  To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
• SEA QUAIL
  The turnstone.
• SQUAIL
  To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.
• DISLINK
  To unlink; to disunite; to separate. Tennyson.