cowed

3 definitions found

cowed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cow \Cow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cowed (koud); p. pr. & vb. n.
     Cowing.] [Cf. Icel. kuga, Sw. kufva to check, subdue, Dan.
     kue. Cf. Cuff, v. t.]
     To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to
     overawe.
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           To vanquish a people already cowed.      --Shak.
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           THe French king was cowed.               --J. R. Green.
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  cowed \cowed\ adj.
     frightened into submission or compliance.
  
     Syn: browbeaten, bullied, hangdog, intimidated.
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cowed - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "cowed":
     afraid, aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken,
     awestruck, blanched, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly,
     daunted, deadly pale, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, frozen,
     funking, funky, gray with fear, henhearted, horrified,
     horror-struck, intimidated, lily-livered, milk-livered,
     milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous,
     pale as death, pallid, panic-prone, panicky, paralyzed, petrified,
     pigeonhearted, rabbity, scared stiff, scared to death, sissified,
     sissy, soft, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed,
     terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken,
     terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, timid, timorous,
     undone, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weak-kneed,
     weakhearted, white-livered, yellow