lower

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   comparative form of low

   comparative form of low: more low

2. 2

   Bottom

   Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.

3. 3

   Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.

   • Lower Manhattan
   • Lower Burgundy
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   1. 4

      Older.

   2. 5

      To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended

      To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

      • lower a bucket into a well
      • to lower a sail of a boat
      • 1833 (first publication), Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave.
   3. 6

      To pull down

      • to lower a flag
   4. 7

      To reduce the height of

      • lower a fence or wall
      • lower a chimney or turret
   5. 8

      To depress as to direction

      • lower the aim of a gun
   6. 9

      To make less elevated

      • to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
   7. 10

      To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

      • lower the temperature
      • lower one's vitality
      • lower distilled liquors
   8. 11

      To bring down

      To bring down; to humble

      • lower one's pride
   9. 12

      To humble oneself

      To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

      • I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
   10. 13

       To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.

       • lower the price of goods
       • lower the interest rate
   11. 14

       To fall

       To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

       • The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
   12. 15

       To decrease in value, amount, etc.

   13. 16

       To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.

   14. 17

       A bicycle suspension fork component.

   15. 18

       Alternative spelling of lour.

       • Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
       • [...] Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.
       • And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!
   16. 19

       A surname.

The neighborhood

• synonymdrop
• synonymfall
• synonymfall off
• synonymshrink
• synonymbecome
• synonymget lower
• synonymlessen
• synonymreduce
• antonymhigherantonym(s) of “more low”
• antonymupperantonym(s) of “bottom”