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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈkaʊɚ/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈkaʊə/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• 韻部：-aʊ.ə(ɹ)

词源 1

源自中古英語 、，源自中古低地德語 (“潜伏；游荡”)或北日耳曼語支（冰島語 (“打盹”)）。同源词包括德語 (“蹲伏”)、荷蘭語 (“蹲守”)、塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 (“躺着缩成一团”)、瑞典語 (“蜷缩”)。与无关，其源自拉丁语。

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A person cowering on Coventry Street, London

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. (不及物) 蜷缩，畏缩

   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.

   打仗的时候他肯定没用，他肯定会缩在地堡里，一直到敌人进来把他枪毙了，或者战争打完。

   • 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.

2. (不及物，古舊) 蹲
   • 1764, , :

     Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
     May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

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3. (及物) 使...蜷缩；吓住，恐吓...并使其屈服
   • 1895, Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industry of Kansas:

     This done, their doubts will vanish, and they will stand confronted by an object lesson which must have the effect either to arouse them to a determination to banish despotism from the land, or cower them into submission and servitude.

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   • 2007, DJ Birmingham, The Queen's Tale: The Struggle for the Survival of Ireland，頁號 170:

     My spirit will cower them and make them wish they had never risen up against me.

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   • 2010, Marilyn Brown Oden, The Dead Saint:

     A vicious Mafia threat intended to cower him—but the chief doesn't cower.

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