Synonyms for cower
ˈkaʊ ərcow·er

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1. cower

   Synonyms:
   shrink, stoop, crouch

   Antonyms:
   rise, stand, dare, face, confront

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1. huddle, cowerverb

   crouch or curl up

   "They huddled outside in the rain"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, huddle together, creep, huddle, fawn, grovel, cringe

2. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

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1. cowerverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, cringe, fawn, stoop, squat, bend the knee

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1. cowerverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, squat, quail, cringe

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1. David Ryan Polgar:

   The solution is not going to be to ... cower in fear and just kind of unplug yourself from life, it's going to be more about saying, 'OK, this is an opportunity where I should be educated in how to use the technology.' Technology is not the problem. The problem is our misuse or lack of education behind it.

2. Ashok Niyogi:

   Empty beer bottles, Crushed packets of Marlboro, Graffiti on stairwells, Blond stubble on heads stuffed with hate, Me, with my circumcised brown vision, Icy blood of undefined pedigree, I am marked for slaughter In the abattoir of the Gulag. I cower behind the Swastika Chained to my door.

3. Melissa Joan Hart:

   You can’t cower away from certain things, i feel like a lot of people don’t like the controversy. They don’t like to discuss [religion]. They don’t like to debate; I love that stuff. If it wasn't for the fact that my family was under a close scrutiny I would probably want to run for [political office] someday or something. I am always the one at dinner parties where people are like ‘don't talk about religion or politics’ and I’m like ‘can we please talk about religion or politics?’ I love debating and I love hearing other perspectives on everything.

4. Brad Blakeman:

   This is a militant organization that wants to use this election cycle to be disruptive. It’s wrong and the more Democrats cower to them, the worse it gets.

5. Misty Buswell:

   Families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes.