Definitions
the act of causing something to move to a lower level
Word origin
c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.
Used in a sentence
“Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.”
“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.”
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01“Bringing down”8 letters
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