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# cower

«cower» in Mova's school dictionary: **To crouch down or shrink back in fear, making yourself small** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (cower, cowers, cowered, cowering)

### meaning for a pupil

To crouch down or shrink back in fear, making yourself small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cower/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a weak person or animal cowers before a bully, a captain or a fierce creature.

### examples

- The puppy cowered under the table during the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cower/#x1)
- He cowered before the angry giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cower/#x2)
- The mice cowered in the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cower/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.