cowed
Meaning of cowed
verb, past tense
- cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.
the intellectuals had been cowed into silence
late 16th century: probably from Old Norse kúga ‘oppress’.
Information about cowed
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of cowed
cowed
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- cowed is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cowed synonyms
Meaning browbeaten:
browbeaten, bullied, hangdog, intimidated
Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:
Meaning make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive:
Meaning intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words:
Meaning seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable):
Meaning repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester:
Meaning coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning beat (someone) repeatedly with a bludgeon or other heavy object:
Meaning rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly:
Meaning impress (someone) so much that they are silent or inhibited:
Meaning inspire with awe:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:
Meaning cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence:
Meaning make (someone) lose courage or confidence:
Meaning overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person):
Meaning cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten:
Meaning create and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror:
Meaning make (someone) afraid or anxious:
Meaning change (organic matter) into a stony substance by encrusting or replacing it with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit:
Meaning use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something):
Meaning rush or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Words that rhyme with cowed
owed, miaowed, bowed, counterembowed, elbowed, embowed, inbowed, outbowed, overbowed, rainbowed, unbowed, underbowed, unelbowed, unimbowed, scowed, uncowed, beshadowed, disendowed, dowed, endowed, foreshadowed, gablewindowed, indowed, meadowed, overendowed, overshadowed, reendowed, shadowed, underendowed, unendowed, unshadowed, unwidowed, unwindowed, widowed, windowed, meowed, chowed, foreshowed, forhowed, outshowed, preshowed, reshowed, showed, unshowed, jowed, allowed, befurbelowed, bellowed, billowed, blowed
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