English
Pronunciation
- (comparative of "low"; let descend by its own weight, etc):
- (lour)
Etymology 1
From low + -er (“‘comparative’”)
Adjective
lower
- Template:Comparative of
Translations
comparative of low
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Etymology 2
From lower (“‘more low’”)
Verb
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to Lower (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail of a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. Alfred Tennyson.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
- (transitive) To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun.
- (transitive) To make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
- Template:Reflexive (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
Synonyms
- (let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail): bring down
- (reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney): shorten
- (depress as to direction, as a gun):
- (make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes): reduce
- (reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature): reduce, turn down
- (transitive: to humble):
- (reflexive: to humble oneself): be humble
- (reduce (something) in value, amount, etc): cut, reduce
- (intransitive: grow less): die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink
- (intransitive: decrease in value): become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduce
Translations
let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail
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reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney
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depress as to direction, as a gun
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make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes
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reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature
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transitive: to humble
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reflexive: to humble oneself
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reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
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to fall, to grow less
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intransitive: to decrease in value
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Etymology 3
Old English lowren, luren; See Dutch loeren, Late German luren. German lauern (“‘to lurk, to be on the watch’”), and English leer, lurk.
Verb
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to Lower (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- Alternative spelling of lour.
Anagrams
- elorw,
- owler
- rowel
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