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Definition
show fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
- Heaven only knows how she must have despised her pale rat of a cowering mistress.Book 2 — Revelation (9% in)
- Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings.Book 3 — Judges (10% in)
- Both of us cower at the sound of tires.Book 5 — Exodus (**% in)
There are no more uses of "cower" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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