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cower
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ka??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ka??/
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English cowre, couren, curen, from Middle Low German kûren (“to lie in wait; linger”) or from North Germanic (Icelandic kúra (“to doze”)). Cognate with German kauern (“to squat”), Dutch koeren (“to keep watch (in a cowered position)”), Serbo-Croatian kutriti (“to lie in a bent position”). Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.
Verb
cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)
- (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
- He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
- 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox", in Fables, Ancient and Modern, published March 1700:
- Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
- (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
- Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest
- Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- The mother bird had mov’d not,
But cowering o’er her nestlings,
Sate confident and fearless,
And watch’d the wonted guest.
- The mother bird had mov’d not,
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
- (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
Translations
See also
- coward
- cowardice
Etymology 2
Verb
cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
Anagrams
- Crowe
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recoil
English
Etymology
From Old French reculer.
Pronunciation
- (verb)
- IPA(key): /???k??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- IPA(key): /???k??l/
- (noun)
- IPA(key): /??i?k??l/
- IPA(key): /??i?k??l/
Noun
recoil (countable and uncountable, plural recoils)
- A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
- The state or condition of having recoiled.
- 1850, Frederick William Robertson, second address delivered to the members of the Working Men's Institute, Brighton
- The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
- 1850, Frederick William Robertson, second address delivered to the members of the Working Men's Institute, Brighton
- (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
- An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
Synonyms
- (firearms): kick
Translations
Verb
recoil (third-person singular simple present recoils, present participle recoiling, simple past and past participle recoiled)
- (intransitive) To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- that rude rout […] forced them, how ever strong and stout / They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt, / Backe to recule […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw. [15th-18th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
- Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle.
- 1838, Thomas De Quincey, The Household Wreck
- The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible […] that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
- (of a firearm) To quickly push back when fired
Translations
Anagrams
- coiler
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