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lowering

/ˈlaʊərɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The act of one who, or that which, lours.
  2. (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.
  3. That lowers or frowns.
  4. Lurking, skulking, menacing.
  5. To frown; to look sullen.
  6. 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.
  7. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
  8. To pull down
  9. To reduce the height of
  10. To depress as to direction
  11. To make less elevated
  12. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
  13. The act of something being lowered.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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