[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cow \cow\, v. t. imp.  p. p. cowed koud; p. pr.  vb. n.
   cowing. cf. icel. kuga, sw. kufva to check, subdue, dan.
   kue. cf. cuff, v. t.
   to depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to
   overawe.
   1913 webster

         to vanquish a people already cowed.      --shak.
   1913 webster

         the french king was cowed.               --j. r. green.
   1913 webster
see also:
cowed cowing cuff 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cowed \cowed\ adj.
   frightened into submission or compliance.

   syn: browbeaten, bullied, hangdog, intimidated.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cowed
     adj : frightened into submission or compliance syn: browbeaten,
            bullied, hangdog, intimidated
see also:
browbeaten bullied hangdog intimidated 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

69 moby thesaurus words for "cowed":
   afraid, aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken,
   awestruck, blanched, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly,
   daunted, deadly pale, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, frozen,
   funking, funky, gray with fear, henhearted, horrified,
   horror-struck, intimidated, lily-livered, milk-livered,
   milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous,
   pale as death, pallid, panic-prone, panicky, paralyzed, petrified,
   pigeonhearted, rabbity, scared stiff, scared to death, sissified,
   sissy, soft, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed,
   terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken,
   terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, timid, timorous,
   undone, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weak-kneed,
   weakhearted, white-livered, yellow

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