crouch, stoop, bend, bow - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
vi → sich ducken; (squatting) → kauern; to cower before somebody → vor jdmducken; he stood cowering in a corner → er standgeduckt in einer Ecke; the cowering peasants → die geduckten Bauern
to draw back and crouch in fear. He was cowering away from the fierce dog. terugdeins يَجْثُـم من الخوْف треперя (от страх) encolher-se krčit se kauern krybe; krybe sammen ζαρώνω από φόβο encogerse, empequeñecerse, apocarse küüru tõmbudes taanduma از ترس خود را جمع کردن kyyristyä se tapir לְהִתכָּווֵץ מִפָּחַד झुकना या पीछे हटना ustuknuti meglapul mundur ketakutan hnipra sig saman rannicchiarsi すくむ 움추리다 trauktis susigūžus sarauties (no bailēm) meromok ineenkrimpenkrype sammen kulić się له ویری څخه ځان راټولول encolher-se a se piti, a se ghemui съёживаться krčiť sa potuhniti se šćućuriti se krypa ihop, huka sig ทำตัวงอด้วยความกลัว yere çökmek 畏縮 зщулюватися خوف يا شرم كے مارے رک جانا ngồi co rúm lại 畏缩
I told him that I am your daughter, trained by you, will neither cower down, nor yield to pressure and nothing will deter me from taking up the cudgels against transgression and injustice.
But when Houston police burst into the home of his friend John Geddes Lawrence in September 1998 and arrested the two men for having sex (then illegal under state law), Garner did not cower in retreat.
First Balanchine and then Agnes de Mille and, most notably, Jerome Robbins dominated dance on Broadway, to be followed by a post-Robbins progeny that included Michael Kidd Cower Champion, Bob Fosse, and Michael Bennett.
Latin American leaders must not he forced to cower to foreign investors who threaten to move elsewhere if they don't play by the rules of take-no-prisoners U.
As an urban black male, coming of age during Generation X, he doesn't cower from unabashedly addressing his heart's emotional architecture, and he does it with more than mack daddy acrobatic rhapsodies.
