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Bowing to intimidation
Answer for the clue "Bowing to intimidation ", 6 letters:
cowing
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vb. (present participle of cow English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. To vanquish a people already cowed. --Shak. ...
Usage examples of cowing.
He told Lieutenant Cowing, his S-4, to go to the place and tell the people they had fifteen minutes to get out.
On the way home they were followed for a while by a group of women who shrieked and chanted at the little puppy, and made unpleasant faces, cowing him rather badly.
Grain stores, trade routes, the cowing of Chinese peasants—all these are dirt compared to that.
He turned toward his friends along the wall as if to ask for help in cowing his prey, but they did not move.
I growled in my best Prussian officer style—my patented recipe for cowing underlings.
And probably the majority of human sheep see themselves in imagination taking great parts in the world's more impressive dramas, forming swift, unerring decisions in moments of crisis, cowing mutinies, allaying panics, brave, strong, simple, but, in spite of their natural modesty, always slightly spectacular.