Synonyms of the word

cower

• v. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

bow

• n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string,…
• n. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
• n. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various…
• n. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the…
• n. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and…
• n. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
• n. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
• n. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating…
• n. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
• n. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
• n. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
• v. To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.
• v. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
• v. (transitive) To make something bend or curve.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively;…
• v. (intransitive) To premiere.
• v. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
• v. (intransitive) To defer (to something).
• n. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence.
• n. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.

crawl

• v. (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
• v. (intransitive, with "with") See crawl with.
• v. (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
• v. (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
• v. (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.
• v. (intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.
• v. (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
• n. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops.
• n. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
• n. (figuratively) A very slow pace.
• n. (television, film) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
• n. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

creep

• v. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
• v. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate…
• v. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
• v. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
• v. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
• v. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
• n. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
• n. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
• n. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something.
• n. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered…
• n. (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those…
• n. (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under…
• n. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
• n. (informal, pejorative) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
• n. (informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker…
• n. (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals…

cringe

• n. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
• n. (dialect) A crick.
• n. An embarrassing event, item or behaviour which causes an onlooker to cringe.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
• v. (intransitive) To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

crouch

• n. (obsolete) A cross.
• v. (obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
• v. (intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when…
• v. (intransitive) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
• v. (intransitive) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
• n. A bent or stooped position.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…

fawn

• n. A young deer.
• n. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
• n. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
• adj. Of the fawn colour.
• v. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
• v. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive, of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.

flex

• n. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
• n. (countable) The act of flexing.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
• v. To bend something.
• v. To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
• v. To move part of the body using one's muscles.
• v. To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

grovel

• v. To be prone on the ground.
• v. To crawl.
• v. To abase oneself before another person.
• v. To be nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
• v. To take pleasure in mundane activities.

huddle

• n. a dense and disorderly crowd.
• n. (American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose…
• v. (intransitive) To crowd together.
• v. (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to…
• v. To get together and discuss.
• v. (intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.
• v. (transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
• v. (transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following…
• adj. Muted, as if emitted by a huddled embryo.

stoop

• n. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also, Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to…
• n. The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
• v. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
• v. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
• v. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
• v. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
• v. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
• v. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
• v. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
• v. To degrade.
• n. A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body.
• n. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
• n. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
• n. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.