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cowerverb to draw back or crouch down in fearful submissionthe abused dog always cowered in the presence of its master cringe, grovel, quail flinch, recoil, shrink, squinchblanch, blench, whitenfawn, kowtow, toady fawn, toady, truckle, cringe, cower mean to behave abjectly before a superior.fawn implies seeking favor by servile flattery or exaggerated attention.waiters fawning over a celebrity toady suggests the attempt to ingratiate oneself by an abjectly menial or subservient attitude.toadying to his boss truckle implies the subordination of oneself and one's desires or judgment to those of a superior.truckling to a powerful lobbyist cringe suggests a bowing or shrinking in fear or servility.a cringing sycophant cower suggests a display of abject fear in the company of threatening or domineering people.cowering before a bully in the 14th century |