cowering
Meaning of cowering
verb, gerund or present participle
- crouch down in fear.
children cowered in terror as the shoot-out erupted
Middle English: from Middle Low German kūren ‘lie in wait’, of unknown ultimate origin.
Information about cowering
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of cowering
cow-er-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- cowering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
cowering synonyms
Meaning bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner:
Meaning move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust:
Meaning adopt a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down, typically in order to avoid detection or to defend oneself:
Meaning suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust:
Meaning make a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise:
Meaning (of a person) tremble convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion:
Meaning shake slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited:
Meaning (of a person, a part of the body, or the voice) shake involuntarily, typically as a result of anxiety, excitement, or frailty:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning (of a person) shake or shudder with fear:
Meaning lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards:
Meaning make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain:
Meaning make white or pale by extracting colour:
Meaning a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage:
Words that rhyme with cowering
Ring, ring, Baring, Dearing, Spearing, Waring, Wearing, Zearing, abearing, afearing, affearing, afterhearing, anearing, appearing, ashlaring, backbearing, baring, bearing, beggaring, besmearing, bevaring, bewaring, blaring, blearing, burglaring, calendaring, caring, cellaring, charing, cheddaring, cheeseparing, childbearing, chivaring, clearing, coappearing, collaring, comparing, compearing, daring, dearing, declaring, dellaring, desugaring, disappearing, dogearing, drearing, earing, emparing, endearing, ensearing
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