cowering synonyms

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apple-polish

bootlick
brown-nose
butter up
curry favor
flatter
grovel
kiss someone's feet
kowtow
lick someone's boots

blench

cringe
draw back
quail
quaver
recoil
shake
shrink
shrink back
shudder

bootlick

brownnose
fawn
grovel
toady

brownnose

apple-polish
back-scratch
bootlick
curry favor
fawn on
flatter
get on the right side of
kiss ass
scratch one's back

cringe

blench
cower
crawl
crouch
dodge
draw back
duck
eat dirt
grovel

crouch

bend
bend down
bow
cower
dip
duck
grovel
huddle
hunch

draw back

deduct
discount
pull back
recede
recoil
reel in
retreat
sheathe
shrink

fawn

baby buck
baby doe
yearling

flinch

avoid
balk
blanch
blench
blink
cower
cringe
crouch
draw back

grovel

apple-polish
beg
beg for mercy
beseech
blandish
bootlick
bow and scrape
brown-nose
butter up

honey

alveolus
darling
dear
dearie
deary
flattery
halvah
nectar
precious

kowtow

bow
brownnose
cave in
court
cower
cringe
fawn
flatter
fold

quail

blanch
blench
cringe
droop
faint
falter
flinch
have cold feet
quake

recoil

backfire
balk
blanch
blench
blink
carom
cringe
demur
dodge

shrink

compress
concentrate
condense
constrict
contract
decrease
deflate
diminish
drop off

skulk

avoid
bypass
conceal oneself
creep
crouch
dodge
elude
evade
hide

sneak

cheater
con artist
coward
cur
dastard
heel
informer
louse
rascal

toady

adulator
apple polisher
ass-kisser
backscratcher
backslapper
bootlicker
brownnoser
doormat
doter

tremble

flutter
have the shakes
jar
jitter
oscillate
palpitate
quake
quaver
quiver

truckle

apple-polish
be servile
bootlick
brownnose
butter up
cajole
fall all over
fall on one's knees
flatter

wince

back off
blanch
blench
cower
cringe
dodge
duck
flinch
grimace

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