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Перевод: cower
[глагол] сжиматься; съеживаться; приседать
Тезаурус:
- A roar greeted his effort at authority and dirt spattered him, making him blink and cower.
- Alone, the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks, mischievous at times, even carefully boisterous; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness, cower as close to being invisible as they could.
- Roadways were widened to double their size, sidewalks narrowed pedestrians began to cower in fear against the walls of buildings."
- A soft dog would cower, perhaps holding his foot up to let you know that he has been hurt and even if you move towards him to apologize, he will move away with a worried expression.
- Most would probably cower at the thought, but some may be prepared to co-operate.
- And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking, and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples.
- I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots, making them shriek and cower.
- A calm stance breeds a sense of trust and security, while a threatening pose will make creatures run, just as a dog will cower or a cat will flee merely at the kind of look expressed upon your face, even in the absence of words.
- She wouldn't cower.
- Forgetting his father's darkness, his swarthiness, Oreste might cower and scream.
- But to cower and hide
- You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it, rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room.
- They are not looking for a tough fight but for a victim - someone who will cower or quake with fear like a doomed rabbit.
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