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Lowering

noun

The act of causing to become less.

The act of causing something to move to a lower level. Synonym: letting down.

adjective

Darkened by clouds. Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening.

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. Antonym: raise.

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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"Lowering" Quotes from Famous Books

... But that could not last. I had begun to "take an account of stock," as Coleridge calls it, and was forced to proceed. He says few persons ever did this faithfully, without being dissatisfied with the result, and lowering their estimate of their supposed riches. With me it has ended in the most humiliating sense of poverty; and only just enough pride is left to keep your poor friend off the parish. As it is, I have already asked items of several besides yourself; but, though they have all ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... clutched at the chairback, then he became quiet and watchful. "And whom does Fleming—or you—suspect?" he asked, with lowering eyelids and a slumbering malice ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... of a great man who is wasting his time without an opportunity to display his valor, he said, lowering his eyes: ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... worthy of consideration whether they may not more frequently escape detection in successful efforts to degrade the living,—whether the very same malice may not be gratified, the very same incompetence demonstrated in the unjust lowering of present greatness, and the unjust exaltation of a perished power, as, if exerted and manifested in a less safe direction, would have classed the critic with Nero and Caligula, with Zoilus and Perrault. Be it ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... in this country has long spawned a social degradation. Where the gift is in the hands of a fixed power, its seeking is lowering enough; but when it is besought from the enlightened voter himself, "the scurvy politician" becomes a reality painfully frequent. Soliciting the ballot over a glass of green corn juice in the back room of a country grocery, or flattering the cara sposa of the farmhouse, ...

— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

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