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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.
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Lowering
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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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.
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.
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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