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To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, toquail; to sink through fear.Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden.Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.
To shy away from something as if you were afraid of it.
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