lower

adjective

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

   Lower Manhattan

   Lower Burgundy

3. 3

   Older.

4. 4

   Also a form of lowcomparative form of low: more low

adverb

1. 1

   Also a form of lowcomparative form of low: more low

verb

1. 1

   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.

   At level crossings where there are to be half-barriers, train-operated through track-circuiting, the barriers will be timed to lower fully about five seconds before the fastest train can reach the crossing.

2. 2

   To pull down.

   to lower a flag

3. 3

   To reduce the height of.

   lower a fence or wall

   lower a chimney or turret

4. 4

   To depress as to direction.

   lower the aim of a gun

5. 5

   To make less elevated.

   to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes

6. 6

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

   lower the temperature

   lower one's vitality

   lower distilled liquors

   Please lower your voices. This is a library.

7. 7

   To bring down; to humble.

   lower one's pride

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

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

   lower the price of goods

   lower the interest rate

10. 10

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

    The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

11. 11

    To decrease in value, amount, etc.

12. 12

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

noun

1. 1

   A bicycle suspension fork component.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of lourAlternative 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!

Forms

plural

lowers

past tense

lowered

past participle

lowered

present participle

lowering

third person singular

lowers