[lou-er-ing, louuh
r-ing] 
| 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. |
[loh-er] | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 13. | a denture for the lower jaw. |
| 14. | a lower berth. |
[lou-er, louuhr] | 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. |
| 3. | a dark, threatening appearance, as of the sky or weather. |
| 4. | a frown or scowl. |
| low·er 1 (lou'ər, lour) intr.v. low·ered also loured, low·er·ing also lour·ing, low·ers also lours
[Middle English louren.] low'er·ing·ly adv. |
| low·er 2 (lō'ər) adj. Comparative of low2
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