cower / ˈkaʊ ər /

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cower 的定义

v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to crouch, as in fear or shame.

cower 近义词

v. 动词 verb

hide, hover in fear

更多cower例句

  1. In fact, many have accused Blancaflor of cowering to the influence of the United States.
  2. There were barely two dozen journalists in theaters that seat hundreds, all scattered around in separate rows, cowering in their masks.
  3. In the apartment were young Denise, her mother and aunt, and two small children who cowered under blankets as the gang terrorized the others, police said.
  4. Durbin has spoken out fearlessly against the NRA while so many of his colleagues in Congress cower.
  5. Camus did not cower from the depressing implications of his insight.
  6. Life in Gaza has ground to a halt as electricity fails, bombs fall, and residents cower.
  7. Was this their first real rocket-induced cower, as it was mine?
  8. Either we have the means to intimidate them or we have to cower in fear.
  9. Will not this coming Yankee Congress force all the world either to cower before them, or check them by upholding us?
  10. And he would cower in the background blushing his absurd little blushes at his second-hand temerity.
  11. Wave after wave of them come across in their field gray-blue uniforms and they never cower.
  12. If, with growing clarity of vision, catastrophe ensued, then was time enough to shrink and cower.
  13. But even then Ruth could not speak; it had come in too tender a moment, had found her too exposed; she could only cower back.