cowered

VERB

hide, hover in fear

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cringe crouch flinch recoil skulk tremble wince

STRONG

blench bootlick fawn grovel honey kowtow quail shrink sneak toady truckle

WEAK

apple-polish brownnose draw back

Antonyms

STRONGEST

face meet

WEAK

come out

Example Sentences

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Since Frenchmen know that thrifty President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a fat little fortune, they would approve if in marrying off an only daughter he dowered her with 20% of it in tax-exempt bonds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Born in Georgetown, S. C. and brought up in Newport, Tenn., Mrs. Eisele and her husband settled on the Minnesota farm with which his prosperous Iowa father dowered them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Art, to middle-class millionaire politicians, is something to be collected and dowered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Beanlands, suddenly dowered by widowhood with money and a chance to gesture, thought it would be romantic to make a non-stop flight from England to Hong-Kong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Richly dowered with nobility himself, himself superior to every fortune, incapable of subjugation by any fate, a master owned among the mightiest, the dominant function of his life was ministration.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.