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What does cowering mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of cower
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Descending to the first floor of his house, he found two men cowering on a credenza, high above the bone-crushing jaws of his prize pets.
So brave, he was afraid of nothing, and yet, here he was, cowering with fear.
Meanwhile, cowering on the leather sectionals, bewildered parents plead to the camera for a nanny intervention.
How could a town live between those huge monstrous creatures without cowering in fear?
There is much admiring of young legal eagles, studying of wizened magistrates and cowering from unrepentant defendants to be done.
Their film of women and children cowering behind fuse wire wasn't a report of an event, as was, for example, footage of the Western Front.

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