Antonyms for cower
ˈkaʊ ərcow·er

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. cower

   Antonyms:
   rise, stand, dare, face, confront

   Synonyms:
   shrink, stoop, crouch

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1. • Crouch

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1. huddle, cowerverb

   crouch or curl up

   "They huddled outside in the rain"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, huddle together, creep, huddle, fawn, grovel, cringe

2. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, cringe, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

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1. cowerverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, squat, quail, cringe

How to use cower in a sentence?

1. Matthew Fletcher:

   When you're attacked ... you have every right to defend yourself, there's no duty to retreat, there's no duty to hide or cower. You have the right to leave.

2. Ray Bradbury:

   We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

3. Pete Meijer:

   It's important to not let the record go uncorrected and to continue to speak the truth, it's something I definitely do at my peril, both politically and otherwise, but I didn't run for office to seek the easy path and I'm certainly not going to cower away from what I think is an important responsibility.

4. Brad Blakeman:

   This is a militant organization that wants to use this election cycle to be disruptive. It’s wrong and the more Democrats cower to them, the worse it gets.

5. David Ryan Polgar:

   The solution is not going to be to ... cower in fear and just kind of unplug yourself from life, it's going to be more about saying, 'OK, this is an opportunity where I should be educated in how to use the technology.' Technology is not the problem. The problem is our misuse or lack of education behind it.

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