Cower: alternatives and connections

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…

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One who fawns; a sycophant.

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One who fawns; a sycophant.

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One who huddles things together.

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One who huddles things together.

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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

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To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

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To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to f…

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A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

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To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's bell…

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To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

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