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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apple-polish, bend, bend the knee, blench, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, dodder, fawn, flatter, flinch, get down, grovel, halt, hunch, hunch down, kneel, kowtow, lick the dust, lickspittle, limp, quail, quiver, recoil, scrouch down, shake, shrink, skulk, slink, sneak, squat, stoop, teeter, toadeat, toady, totter, tremble, truckle, wallow, welter, wince
Dictionary Results for cower:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cower
    v 1: crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain" [syn:
         huddle, cower]
    2: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep,
       cringe, cower, grovel]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cower \Cow"er\ (kou"[~e]r), v. t.
   To cherish with care. [Obs.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cower \Cow"er\ (kou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cowered
   (kou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cowering.] [Cf. Icel. kera to
   doze, liequiet, Sw. kura, Dan. kure, G. kauern to cower, W.
   cwrian.]
   To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to
   quail; to sink through fear.
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         Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. --Dryden.
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         Like falcons, cowering on the nest.      --Goldsmith.
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