lowering

[Low·er*ing]

The act of causing something to move to a lower level

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Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

Noun
the act of causing something to move to a lower level

Noun
the act of causing to become less

Adjective S.
darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Lower

a.
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.


Lowering

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

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

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Usage Examples

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

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