coure
coure is the obsolete form of cower.
Meaning of cower
Verb (1)
cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)
- To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
- 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.
- To crouch in general.
- Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
- To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
- 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.1895, Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industry of Kansas
- To be a coward; to hide away or refuse to face opposition due to fear.
Verb (2)
cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)
- To cherish with care.
Forms of coure
| third-person singular present | coures |
|---|---|
| present participle | couring |
| past participle | coured |
| past | coured |
Questions about coure
- What is coure the obsolete form of?
- Coure is the obsolete form of cower.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coure (page history and authors); cower (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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