lowering
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
1. The act of one who, or that which, lours.
1. (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.
2. That lowers or frowns.
3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.
Synonyms
lowering
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
1. To frown; to look sullen.
2. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
Synonyms
1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
"lower a bucket into a well"
2. To pull down
"to lower a flag"
3. To reduce the height of
"lower a chimney or turret"
4. To depress as to direction
"lower the aim of a gun"
5. To make less elevated
"to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes"
6. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
"lower distilled liquors"
7. To bring down; to humble
"lower one's pride"
8. (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
"I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes."
9. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
"lower the interest rate"
10. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
"The river lowered as rapidly as it rose."
11. To decrease in value, amount, etc.
Synonyms
1. The act of something being lowered.
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