cowed vs fearful

cowed

adj
  • Frightened into submission. 

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed. 

fearful

adj
  • Frightening; causing fear. 

  • Tending to fear; timid. 

adv
  • Extremely; fearfully. 

How often have the words cowed and fearful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )