The word 'cowered' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to describe the action of crouching down or cowering in fear or submission. It is often used in a figurative sense to describe someone who is intimidated or overwhelmed by a situation. Example: The frightened child cowered in the corner, trying to hide from the loud thunderstorm outside.
To the delight of his audience he said that Labour had "cowered" before media barons and had been guilty of illiberal populism on civil liberties.
Chloe condemned her trolls in the Daily Mail as someone who sends who send "lewd, disturbing messages" while he "cowered anonymously behind his computer screen".
As the players and umpires cowered on the floor of their vehicles for 20 minutes while the bullets flew, several received shrapnel wounds.
While we've led the charge against the media barons, Labour has cowered before them for decades.
The 3D is so subtle that it is sometimes hard to spot, until you realise that you jumped that bit higher when the tiger leapt from under the boat's canopy and cowered that bit more when Pi is hurled into waves that seem to crash right through the screen.
It was so strong that, even in Tokyo's shock-absorbing skyscrapers, office workers cowered beneath their desks and then raced out into the street, only to be hit again by the whump of aftershocks.As the quake lifted the ocean floor, it triggered a tsunami (the word is Japanese) that breached with ease some of what were considered to be Japan's best coastal defences.
Instead 16 Palestinians were killed in the densely populated town in southern Gaza, including eight people slain by a helicopter missile while they cowered outside a mosque.Ariel Sharon regretted the civilian losses but claimed the invasion a success, and promised more such operations in Gaza.
Villagers who cowered for years in camps, subsisting on food aid, have returned to their fields, sunk new wells to replace the ones the men with guns blew up, and started farming again.
Civilians cowered indoors, unable to tell whether the big-booted heavies outside their doors were shooting to topple the government or to defend it.It is still not clear what happened, but here is a rough summary.
Families cowered in marshes and took refuge in mosques as crowds banged on doors, baying for Muslims to come out.
The Muslim east was on his doorstep, but as violence raged in the streets, the family cowered in the cellar of its mansion.
