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Synonyms for cower
ˈkaʊ ərcow·er
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huddle, cowerverb
crouch or curl up
"They huddled outside in the rain"
Synonyms:
crawl, huddle together, creep, huddle, fawn, grovel, cringefawn, 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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#14216 | crawl | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#18621 | creep | |
#22782 | quail | |
#26161 | crouch | |
#30821 | fawn | |
#31728 | recoil | |
#31924 | wince | |
#43010 | cringe | |
#47721 | stoop | |
#49409 | huddle | |
#76457 | flinch | |
#102486 | cower | |
#116571 | grovel | |
#128894 | toady | |
#207328 | kowtow | |
#271278 | pussyfoot | |
#275633 | truckle |
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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.
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.
When the shelling starts, we rush to cower in the makeshift basements of our home, the power supply gets cut and we wait in the darkness with our terrified children, waiting for it be over.
You can’t cower away from certain things, i feel like a lot of people don’t like the controversy. They don’t like to discuss [religion]. They don’t like to debate; I love that stuff. If it wasn't for the fact that my family was under a close scrutiny I would probably want to run for [political office] someday or something. I am always the one at dinner parties where people are like ‘don't talk about religion or politics’ and I’m like ‘can we please talk about religion or politics?’ I love debating and I love hearing other perspectives on everything.
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.
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