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low⋅er⋅ing

[lou-er-ing, lou^uh

r-ing]

–adjective

1.	dark and threatening, as the sky, clouds, or weather; overcast; gloomy: lowering skies.

2.	frowning or sullen, as the face or gaze; scowling; angry.

Also, louring.

Origin:
1300–50; ME louring. See lower ² , -ing ²

Related forms:

low⋅er⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

low⋅er

1 [loh-er]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.

2.	to make lower in height or level: to lower the water in a canal.

3.	to reduce in amount, price, degree, force, etc.

4.	to make less loud: Please lower your voice.

5.	to bring down in rank or estimation; degrade; humble; abase (oneself), as by some sacrifice of self-respect or dignity: His bad actions lowered him in my eyes.

6.	Music. to make lower in pitch; flatten.

7.	Phonetics. to alter the articulation of (a vowel) by increasing the distance of the tongue downward from the palate: The vowel of “clerk” is lowered to (ä) in the British pronunciation.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to become lower, grow less, or diminish, as in amount, intensity, or degree: The brook lowers in early summer. Stock prices rise and lower constantly.

9.	to descend; sink: the sun lowering in the west.

–adjective

10.	comparative of low ¹ .

11.	of or pertaining to those portions of a river farthest from the source.

12.	(often initial capital letter) Stratigraphy. noting an early division of a period, system, or the like: the Lower Devonian.

–noun

13.	a denture for the lower jaw.

14.	a lower berth.

Origin:
1150–1200; ME, comp. of low ¹ (adj.)

Related forms:

low⋅er⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. drop, depress. 3. decrease, diminish, lessen. 4. soften. 5. humiliate, dishonor, disgrace, debase.

Antonyms:
3. raise, increase. 5. elevate, honor.

low⋅er

2 [lou-er, lou^uh

–verb (used without object)

1.	to be dark and threatening, as the sky or the weather.

2.	to frown, scowl, or look sullen; glower: He lowers at people when he's in a bad mood.

–noun

3.	a dark, threatening appearance, as of the sky or weather.

4.	a frown or scowl.

Also, lour.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME lour (n.), louren (v.) to frown, lurk; akin to G lauern, D loeren

Synonyms:
1. darken, threaten.

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low·er¹ (lou'ər, lour)

intr.v. low·ered also loured, low·er·ing also lour·ing, low·ers also lours

To look angry, sullen, or threatening. See Synonyms at frown.
To appear dark or threatening, as the sky.

A threatening, sullen, or angry look.
A dark and ominous look: the lower of thunderheads.

[Middle English louren.]
low'er·ing·ly adv.

low·er² (lō'ər)

adj. Comparative of low²

Below another in rank, position, or authority.
Physically situated below a similar or comparable thing: a lower shelf.
Lower Geology & Archaeology Relating to or being an earlier or older division of the period named.
Biology Less advanced in organization or evolutionary development.
Denoting the larger and usually more representative house of a bicameral legislature.

v. low·ered, low·er·ing, low·ers

v. tr.

To let, bring, or move down to a lower level.
To reduce in value, degree, or quality.
To weaken; undermine: lower one's energy.
To reduce in standing or respect.

v. intr.

To move down: Her hand lowered.
To become less; diminish: The temperature has lowered gradually this month.

Lowering

Low"er*ing\, a. Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

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