cower

Other forms of cower

past tense

cowerred·

present participle

cowerring·

third person

cowers·

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 cower

What does cower mean?

cower means "crouch or curl up". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cower?

cower has 2 syllables: co-wer. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊɚ/.

What is another word for cower?

Close synonyms include huddle, fawn, crawl, creep, cringe. 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 cower a common word?

cower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.