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coward
/ˈkaʊəd/
adj 2noun 1verb 1name 1
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1(noun.)
VERB + COWARD
brand sb, call sb, label sb
After losing the fight without standing up for himself, his friends called him a coward.
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noun
1
A person who lacks courage.
Near-synonyms: big baby, baby
Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]
adj
1
Cowardly.
It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4, He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
2
Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
verb
1
To intimidate.
The first he coped with was their captain, whom / His sword sent headless to seek out a tomb. / This cowarded the valour of the rest, […]
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Near-synonyms: big baby, baby
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Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]
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1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the f
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It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
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c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4, He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
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Invading Fears repel my Coward Joy; And Ills foreseen the pleasant Bliss destroy.
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