4 uses
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Definition
show fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
- Not only the little boy, Jackson or Pierrot, would be cowering—so too would the extra help from the village.Part 1 (12% in)
- Meanwhile he had cowered in a ditch with his head in a culvert and caught the shrapnel in his side.Part 2 (37% in)
- At the shrill whine of the bomb everyone cowered on the ground.Part 2 (61% in)
- Each dive brought every man, cornered and cowering, to face his execution.Part 2 (64% in)
There are no more uses of "cower" in Atonement.
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