[
US
/ˈɫoʊɝ/
]
VERB
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move something or somebody to a lower position
take down the vase from the shelf -
set lower
lower a rating
lower expectations - look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
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make lower or quieter
turn down the volume of a radio -
cause to drop or sink
The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir
NOUN
- the lower of two berths
How To Use lower In A Sentence
- Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
- Other worries were language barriers and lower standards of quality in some countries. Times, Sunday Times
- We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- It was a homey room, though a little too flowery for me, with prints of cabbage-size roses on the slipcovers and curtains. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
- The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
- Overextension in the lower back results in this 'duck-like' posture. Times, Sunday Times
- In addition, experimental flowers that matured a fruit (and therefore received a visit) had significantly larger corollas compared with corollas of flowers that did not initiate a fruit.