lowering

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of lower

   • Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.
2. 2

   The act of something being lowered.

3. 3

   A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.

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   1. 4

      Dark and menacing.

      • The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
      • Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.
   2. 5

      That lowers or frowns.

      • One glance sufficed to identify the intruder, for none but he could boast of such a dark, lowering countenance ; and all exclaimed in mingled wonder and terror at his unwonted presence in those sunlit regions:
      • A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.
   3. 6

      Lurking, skulking, menacing.

      • They might have stayed until dusk, undisturbed by Schmidt's casual customers, had it not been for the entrance of three grimy and lowering men.
      • The outsize nature of Norse mythological characters is well noted in Caselli's dramatic close-ups, in which the powerful, lowering figures of Odin or Thor are backed by ice and rock, massive trolls, gigantic eagles and wolves.
   4. 7

      Alternative form of louring.

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