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She cowered in fear.cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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She cowered behind her big sister.cowered = cringed or crouched in fear
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"Yeh can' take Dumbledore!" yelled Hagrid, making Fang the boarhound cower and whimper in his basket. (source)cower = show fear
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He didn't particularly enjoy getting roughed up, but the alternative was to cower and beg, which he couldn't lower himself to do. (source)
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I cower and hide my eyes. (source)cower = show fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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Every petty tyrant-to-be would like to have the boy, to set him in front of an army and watch the world either flock to join or cower in fear. (source)cower = show fear
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A few steps in, I remember I'm supposed to look like I'm cowering, so I slow my pace and hug the wall, keeping my head down. (source)cowering = showing fear
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Cole cowered on the ground, pain piercing his shoulder. (source)cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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We must all be alike. ... Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. (source)cower = show fear
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A third throws away his rifle, cowers down with his hands before his eyes.† (source)cowers = shows fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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See how Sir Tristram hunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with his lady, and forsaketh your worship.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She cowereth" in older English, today we say "She cowers."
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To look at him was like reading a relic typeface, like the first letter-block of a book, maybe the letter Y, his frame bent a little sideways as though a mule had fought one arm, the wide shoulders set back, curiously askance, a physical assemblage that belied his uncowering nature.† (source)uncowering = not showing fearstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncowering means not and reverses the meaning of cowering. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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At the last second, the empousa turned toward me like a cowering victim. (source)cowering = showing fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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I cowered, afraid of killing her with my claws. (source)cowered = showed fear by positioning the body
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She's the righteous one now I can feel myself start to shrink, to cower.† (source)
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The dog cowers and lags behind, and it's his master's turn to drag him along.† (source)cowers = shows fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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