Usually means: Showing fear through bodily withdrawal.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cowering: Merriam-Webster
  2. cowering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cowering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cowering, cowering: Wordnik
  5. cowering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cowering: Wiktionary
  7. Cowering, cowering: Dictionary.com
  8. cowering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cowering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Cowering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cowering: FreeDictionary.org
  12. cowering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cowering: Legal dictionary

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  1. cowering: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cower)

verb:  (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
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