- to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- to make lower in height or level: to lower the water in a canal.
- to reduce in amount, price, degree, force, etc.
- to make less loud: Please lower your voice.
- 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.
- to make lower in pitch; flatten.
- 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.
- 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.
- to descend; sink: the sun lowering in the west.
- comparative of low1.
- of or relating to those portions of a river farthest from the source.
- noting an early division of a period, system, or the like: the Lower Devonian.
- a denture for the lower jaw.
- a lower berth.
- to be dark and threatening, as the sky or the weather.
- to frown, scowl, or look sullen; glower: He lowers at people when he's in a bad mood.
- a dark, threatening appearance, as of the sky or weather.
- a frown or scowl.
- being below one or more other things
- reduced in amount or value
- (of a limit or bound) less than or equal to one or more numbers or variables
- denoting the early part or division of a period, system, formation, etc
- to cause to become low or on a lower level; bring, put, or cause to move down
- to reduce or bring down in estimation, dignity, value, etc
- to reduce or be reduced
- to make quieter
- to reduce the pitch of
- to modify the articulation of (a vowel) by bringing the tongue further away from the roof of the mouth
- to diminish or become less
- (esp of the sky, weather, etc) to be overcast, dark, and menacing
- to scowl or frown
- a menacing scowl or appearance
