cow

1. 1.

   subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

   Synonymsoverawe

   Broaderawe

   Narrowerbuffalo

Other forms of cow

plural

cows·

past tense

cowed·

present participle

cowing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cow

What does cow mean?

cow means "female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term"". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cow?

cow has 1 syllable: cow. In IPA it is /ˈkaʊ/.

What is another word for cow?

Close synonyms include moo-cow, overawe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cow a common word?

cow is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cow?

2 words rhyme with cow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.