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cowed - definition and meaning
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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adjective Frightened into submission .verb cow .
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The sound of her father saying her name cowed her.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
The sound of her father saying her name cowed her.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
Captain Somerville has been begging me to intercede with the Admiralty again; but I have been so rebuffed, that my spirits are gone, and the great Troubridge has what we call cowed the spirits of Nelson; but I shall never forget it.
The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897
The sound of her father saying her name cowed her.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
The mention of Gedge's name cowed Reginald in an instant, and in the sudden revulsion of feeling which ensued he was glad enough to escape from the room before fairly breaking down under a crushing sense of injury, mortification, and helplessness.
Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
'Yes -- perhaps I might -- after all the suffering had been forced upon me, and was over at last -- when I had been thoroughly exhausted and cowed , that is.'
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
It also showed that Samir isn't a player to be easily cowed , which is also heartening.
Goonerboy 2008
"The Third Man" watches from the wings while a "cowed " Mr. Blair considers moving Mr. Brown from the Treasury but balks at the dangers.
The Heart of Darkness 2010
The White House is not going to fire Alan Simpson, the chair of Obama's fiscal commission, for saying Social Security is "a milk cow with 310 million tits," and Paul Krugman says it shows Dems are "cowed " by the right.
The Morning Plum 2010
They served Ware and his guests without a sound, though with no sign of the kind of cowed subservience Xylina had seen in other slaves of their type.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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