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cower

verb as in hide, hover in fear

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He lay down and he cowered before the robot.

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Another clip showed his clerk—a relative—cowering behind the counter as gunfire erupted outside.

Other victims, cowering in terror, are shot in the legs or beaten with heavy clubs.

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Newsrooms, tech companies and TV networks cower before a president bringing his critics to heel with threats of flimsy lawsuits.

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"For Charlie, we will never shrink, we will never cower, and we will never falter, even when we are staring down the barrel of a gun."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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