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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.
EXPANDto 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.
COLLAPSEPhonetics. 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.
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Lowered
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
adjective
10.
comparative of low1.
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.
Related forms
low·er·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
1. drop, depress. 3. decrease, diminish, lessen. 4. soften. 5. humiliate, dishonor, disgrace, debase.
1. drop, depress. 3. decrease, diminish, lessen. 4. soften. 5. humiliate, dishonor, disgrace, debase.
Antonyms
3. raise, increase. 5. elevate, honor.
3. raise, increase. 5. elevate, honor.
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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.
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Word Origin & History
lower
(also lour), M.E. louren, luren "to frown, lurk," from O.E. *luran or from its cognates, M.L.G. luren, M.Du. loeren "lie in wait."
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lower  (lō'ər) Pronunciation Key
Being an earlier division of the geological or archaeological period named. Compare upper. |
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