Cower

Etymology
From kuren: or from Scandinavian ( kúra:). Compare German kauern:.

Verb

 * 1) To crouch or cringe in fear.
 * He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

Derived terms

 * coward
 * cowardice

Adverbs for Cower
gloomily; weakly; shrinkingly; ignobly; basely; abjectly; servilely; palpably; pusillanimously; spinelessly.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: свивам се, треперя
 * Czech:


 * Spanish: encogerse, amilanarse