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lowering 音标拼音: [l'oɚɪŋ] a. 使卑劣的,减弱体力的,昏暗的 使卑劣的,减弱体力的,昏暗的 lowering*下移 lowering adj 1: darkened by clouds; " a heavy sky" [ synonym: { heavy}, { lowering}, { sullen}, { threatening}] n 1: the act of causing to become less 2: the act of causing something to move to a lower level [ synonym: { lowering}, { letting down}] Lower \ Low" er\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Lowered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Lowering}.] [ OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G. lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.] 1. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. [ 1913 Webster] All the clouds that lowered upon our house. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To frown; to look sullen. [ 1913 Webster] But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Lower \ Low" er\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Lowered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Lowering}.] [ From { Low}, a.] 1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag. [ 1913 Webster] Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one' s ambition, aspirations, or hopes. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one' s vitality; to lower distilled liquors. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one' s pride. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc. [ 1913 Webster]
Lowering \ Low" er* ing\, a. Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. [ 1913 Webster] 220 Moby Thesaurus words for " lowering": Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, abatement, about to be, abridgment, abusive, alleviation, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, attenuation, bad, baleful, baneful, beetle, beetle- browed, beetling, black, black- browed, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, break, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cadence, catenary, cheapening, close, close at hand, clouded, cloudy, coming, comminatory, concavity, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, dark, dark and gloomy, de- escalation, debasement, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decurrence, deduction, deepening, deflation, degradation, dejected, demotion, denunciatory, depreciation, depression, descent, detrusion, devaluation, digging, diminishment, diminution, dire, dive, doomful, dour, dreary, drilling, droop, ducking, dull, dumpish, dying, dying off, evil, evil- starred, excavation, extenuation, fade- out, fateful, fear- inspiring, foreboding, forthcoming, frowning, funereal, future, gathering, gloom, gloomful, gloominess, glooming, gloomy, glowering, glum, going to happen, grim, grum, hauling down, heavy, hectoring, hollowness, ill, ill- boding, ill- fated, ill- lighted, ill- lit, ill- omened, ill- starred, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inauspicious, incumbent, instant, intimidating, jutting, languishment, lapse, lessening, letup, looming, lower, lurking, markdown, melancholy, menacing, minacious, minatory, miniaturization, mining, mitigation, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, near, near at hand, nearing, nose dive, nubilous, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overcast, overclouded, overhanging, overhung, pending, plummet, plummeting, plunge, portending, portentous, preparing, price cut, price fall, price reduction, probing, projecting, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging, scaling down, scowling, simplicity, sinister, sinkage, sinking, slash, slump, somber, somberness, sombrous, sombrousness, stormy, submergence, subsidence, subtraction, sulky, sullen, superincumbent, surly, swag, terroristic, terrorizing, that will be, threatening, threatful, thrusting under, to come, tunneling, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, upcoming, waiting, weakening
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