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Lowered

adjective

Below the surround or below the normal position.

Lower

verb

(past & past part. lowered; pres. part. lowering)

Move something or somebody to a lower position. Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down.

Set lower. Synonym: lour. "Lower expectations"

Make lower or quieter. Synonyms: lour, turn down.

Cause to drop or sink. Synonym: depress.

Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval. Synonyms: frown, glower, lour.

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"Lowered" Quotes from Famous Books

... Annie lowered her voice immediately with a startled look. "Oh," she whispered. "I would not have anybody hear ...

— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... made himself busy in other ways, the cutter being lowered and a party of seamen and boys sent in her with a kedge to drop astern and try to warp off; the port bower anchor being dropped at the same time, and a spring set on the cable, which was buoyed so that we could slip it in a moment in the event of ...

— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson

... so mindful of his old grudge that he sought out your domicile, and, with the intention of murder, climbed the trellis leading to your room and turned his pistol upon the shadowy figure which was all he could see in the semi-obscurity of a much lowered gas-jet?" ...

— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green

... for the man's soul, turned, mounted, and galloped. He forded Wan. A horseman met him on the further bank, shouting. Prosper lowered his head and shot at him as from a catapult. The spear drove deep, the man threw his arms out, sobbed, and dropped like a stone. ...

— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett

... the steamer. We hurried out to see what was the matter, and found the cause of the tumult to be a fallow deer, that had taken the water some two hundred yards from our steamer, and was swimming steadily across from the right to the left bank of the river. The yawl had already been lowered, and was pushing off from the side with five men in it, amongst whom Doughby ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

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