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Lowering

Lowering Meaning & Definition
Lowering Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lowering?

[n] the act of causing something to move to a lower level
[n] the act of causing to become less
[adj] darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lowering: cloudy | heavy | letting down | sullen | threatening

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lowering: abatement | about to be | abridgment | abusive | Acheronian | Acherontic | alleviation | already in sight | apocalyptic | approaching | at hand | attenuation | bad | baleful | baneful | beetle | beetle-browed | beetling | black | black-browed | bludgeoning | blustering | bodeful | boding | break | brewing | browbeating | bulldozing | bullying | cadence | catenary | cheapening | Cimmerian | close | close at hand | clouded | cloudy | coming | comminatory | concavity | contraction | cut | dampening | damping | dark | dark and gloomy | debasement | decline | decrease | decrement | decrescence | decurrence | deduction | deepening | de-escalation | deflation | degradation | dejected | demotion | denunciatory | depreciation | depression | descent | detrusion | devaluation | digging | diminishment | diminution | dire | dive | doomful | dour | dreary | drilling | droop | ducking | dull | dumpish | dying | dying off | evil | evil-starred | excavation | extenuation | fade-out | fateful | fear-inspiring | foreboding | forthcoming | frowning | funereal | future | gathering | gloom | gloomful | gloominess | glooming | gloomy | glowering | glum | going to happen | grim | grum | hauling down | heavy | hectoring | hollowness | ill | ill-boding | ill-fated | ill-lighted | ill-lit | ill-omened | ill-starred | immediate | imminent | impendent | impending | in danger imminent | in prospect | in reserve | in store | in the cards | in the offing | in the wind | in view | inauspicious | incumbent | instant | intimidating | jutting | languishment | lapse | lessening | letup | looming | lower | lurking | markdown | melancholy | menacing | minacious | minatory | miniaturization | mining | mitigation | moodish | moody | mopey | moping | mopish | morose | mumpish | near | near at hand | nearing | nose dive | nubilous | of evil portent | ominous | on the horizon | overcast | overclouded | overhanging | overhung | pending | plummet | plummeting | plunge | portending | portentous | preparing | price cut | price fall | price reduction | probing | projecting | reduction | relaxation | sag | sagging | scaling down | scowling | simplicity | sinister | sinkage | sinking | slash | slump | somber | somberness | sombrous | sombrousness | stormy | Stygian | submergence | subsidence | subtraction | sulky | sullen | superincumbent | surly | swag | terroristic | terrorizing | that will be | threatening | threatful | thrusting under | to come | tunneling | unfavorable | unfortunate | unlucky | unpromising | unpropitious | untoward | upcoming | waiting | weakening

See Also | decrease | diminution | movement | reduction | step-down | tapering

Lowering In Webster's Dictionary

\Low"er*ing\, a. Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

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