I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cow/cat etc swishes its tail (= quickly moves it from side to side )
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The cow wandered off, swishing her tail.
cash cow
cow chip
cow pie
cows/horses etc graze in a field (= they eat the grass growing there )
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Cattle were grazing in the field below.
mad cow disease
milch cow
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Farmers in western Canada see themselves as a milch cow for the Eastern establishment.
sacred cow
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In New York’s show business scene, money, fame and power are sacred cows.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
holy cow/mackerel etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a field full of cows
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arizona Game and Fish is offering a $ 500 reward for information on a cow elk poaching near Payson about April 17.
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As the cows waited for their turn, the milk fell in drops on the ground.
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Suet, I believe, is cow fat.
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This part of West London seemed like the country to me, with none of the disadvantages, no cows or farmers.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dissidents were cowed into silence by the army.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And maybe they would be cowed not only by the discipline but by the man who wielded it.
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For decades it has cowed public employees, left them docile, passive, and bitter.
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He should have been cowed and compromised by fear and debt, but he was not.
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Rather than jump to morbid conclusions, I let him cow me into accepting his version of the incident.
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She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.
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The men might be cowed for the time being.
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Yet they do not appear to have been cowed by systems or professionals.