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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. cow

    One is frightened by a cause of fear addressed directly and suddenly to the senses; he is intimidated by an apprehension of contingent consequences dependent on some act of his own to be done or forborne; the means of intimidation may act through the senses, or may appeal only to the intellect or the sensibilities. The sudden rush of an armed madman may frighten; the quiet leveling of a highwayman's pistol intimidates. A savage beast is intimidated by the keeper's whip. Employers may intimidate their employees from voting contrary to their will by threat of discharge; a mother may be intimidated through fear for her child. To browbeat or cow is to bring into a state of submissive fear; to daunt is to give pause or check to a violent, threatening, or even a brave spirit. To scare is to cause sudden, unnerving fear; to terrify is to awaken fear that is overwhelming. Compare ALARM.

    Synonyms:
    affright, alarm, appal, browbeat, daunt, dismay, frighten, intimidate, scare, terrify

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cowverb

    Synonyms:
    frighten, abash, intimidate, oppress, brow-bent

    Antonyms:
    countenance, rally, encourage, inspirit

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. cow, moo-cownoun

    female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term"

    Synonyms:
    cow, moo-cow

  2. cownoun

    mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

    Synonyms:
    moo-cow

  3. cowverb

    a large unpleasant woman

    Synonyms:
    moo-cow

  4. overawe, cowverb

    subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

    Synonyms:
    overawe, cow

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. poddiesnoun

    a calf, in particular one which is fed by hand

    Submitted by aayanabrooklyn on July 29, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cowverb

    Synonyms:
    overawe, intimidate, frighten, daunt, subdue by fear

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cownoun

    Synonyms:
    female of bovine animals, heifer (young cow), maverick

    Associated words:
    bovine, bos, moo, low, lowing, farrow, beef, neat, moolley, vachery, chiche-vache, milch

  2. cowverb

    Synonyms:
    overawe, daunt, intimidate, scare, dishearten

PPDB, the paraphrase database2.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "cow":

    vaca, cows, ngau, frenzy, googlie, kow, niu, madness, blimp, lard-ass, stinker, mad, bitchy, fat-ass

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How to use COW in a sentence?

  1. AiR Atman in Ravi:

    Either we can be Conscious of the Now, or we can be grazing like a cow... chewing thoughts one by one, losing Life till it is done.

  2. Daniel Perley:

    The properties of the Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it, whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor.

  3. William Lyon Phelps:

    If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

  4. Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy:

    Maybe when people get really tired of superhero movies, they'll do it as one last ditch desperate attempt to kind of milk the cow dry, i think there are so many characters in the X-Men universe that we could go and explore before we have to go and mash up with those guys.

  5. David McLain:

    People in blue zones don’t eat nearly as much fish as the Mediterranean diet prescribes, only three times a week and only 3 ounces, meat is eaten only five times a month. There’s no cow’s milk in any blue zone.


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