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cower

[kou-er] / ˈkaʊ ər /


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After 36 hours in our care, Bob still had not peed, pooped, eaten, or done much of anything beyond cower.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2025

“This is a story of happiness,” Gibson insists at one point, refusing to cower to cancer.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025

It could cower any woman, but Case hardened and bristled into a take-no-crap, determined, independent force of nature.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

Ten 6-week-old piglets cower together in the corner of a gated pen spread with straw.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

The rest of my team did their best to cower in fear and not look like targets.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan




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