Lowering
['loərɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of causing something to move to a lower level.
(noun.) the act of causing to become less.
Edited by Joanne--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lower
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lower
(a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
Edited by Hattie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Cloudy, clouded, overcast, lurid, murky.
n. Depression, diminution, reduction.
Typist: Phil
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dark, threatening, gloomy, murky, lurid, overcast
ANT:[See MUGGY]
Editor: Rhoda
Examples
- Why yes, said Joe, lowering his voice, he's left the Church and went into the playacting. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I don't like these things, but if one carries them out faithfully they are not really lowering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Some other method of increasing the production without lowering the quality of the printed sheet must be resorted to--and this is duplication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And, lowering his voice, you may as well go back again now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He made no reply, but walked on with a lowering face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You still persist in your lowering treatment of this case of fever? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She bent forward, lowering her voice to mitigate the horror. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I beg pardon, ma'am, said Haley, bowing slightly, with a still lowering brow; but still I say, as I said before, this yer's a sing'lar report. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Fairway then lit a lantern, tied it to another cord, and began lowering it into the well beside the first: Clym came forward and looked down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In fact,' said Mrs. Micawber, lowering her voice,--'this is between ourselves--our reception was cool. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A cloud is lowering on the distant town, towards which I retraced my solitary steps. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the diminution of consumption, there can be but one remedy, and that is the lowering of the tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It means lowering the value of the stone, and cheating the rogues in that way! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Typed by Lloyd