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cower 音标拼音: [k'ɑʊɚ] vi. 畏缩,退缩,抖缩 畏缩,退缩,抖缩 cower v 1: crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain" [synonym: {huddle}, {cower}] 2: show submission or fear [synonym: {fawn}, {crawl}, {creep}, {cringe}, {cower}, {grovel}] Cower \Cow"er\ (kou"[~e]r), v. t. To cherish with care. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Cower \Cow"er\ (kou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cowered} (kou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cowering}.] [Cf. Icel. kera to doze, liequiet, Sw. kura, Dan. kure, G. kauern to cower, W. cwrian.] To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. [1913 Webster] Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Like falcons, cowering on the nest. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for "cower": apple-polish, bend, bend the knee, blench, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, dodder, fawn, flatter, flinch, get down, grovel, halt, hunch, hunch down, kneel, kowtow, lick the dust, lickspittle, limp, quail, quiver, recoil, scrouch down, shake, shrink, skulk, slink, sneak, squat, stoop, teeter, toadeat, toady, totter, tremble, truckle, wallow, welter, wince
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