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adjective

Definition of cowednext
as in intimidated

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verb

past tense of cow
as in frightened
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats a sharp glare cowed the child into being quiet

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  1. intimidated
  2. bullied
  3. oppressed
  4. downtrodden
Adjective
  • Building a football culture from not very much seems like a daunting prospect, but Pomroy does not seem too intimidated.
    — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Is there an underserved niche of Santa Barbara moms with their own pristine vegetable gardens who’ve previously been too intimidated to attempt baking focaccia?
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of intimidated
Verb
  • Unfortunately for them, Steph won’t be bullied – even by paternalistic threats of being sued into oblivion.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Trans athletes feel unsafe, bullied Meanwhile, in Riverside on Thursday, advocates gathered at the Inland Empire LGBTQ+ Center.
    — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of bullied
Adjective
  • The 2022 protests demonstrated that women, alongside other oppressed and disadvantaged groups, are at the heart of these movements.
    — Narges Mohammadi, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
  • What about the stress of living in a chronically oppressed society that could reduce the life span of LGBTQ people?
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of oppressed
Adjective
  • Ditto a downtrodden everyman who’s left his white-collar job in Quebec to reluctantly return to Winnipeg.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
  • It feels directly dragged out of the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when Hollywood was devoted to turning out swarms of action flicks in which some flawed and downtrodden but good-hearted hero thwarts a devious conspiracy or an impending alien invasion or whatever.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of downtrodden
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