/ˈləʊ.ə/, /ˈloʊ.ɚ/, /ˈloʊ(ə)ɹ/
OriginFrom low + -er (comparative suffix).
- comparative, form-ofcomparative form of low: more low
- Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
- Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
“Lower Manhattan”
“Lower Burgundy”
- Older.
- comparative, form-ofcomparative form of low: more low
- transitiveTo 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.”
- transitiveTo pull down
- transitiveTo reduce the height of
“lower a fence or wall”
“lower a chimney or turret”
- transitiveTo depress as to direction
- transitiveTo make less elevated
“to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes”
- transitiveTo reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
“lower the temperature”
“lower one's vitality”
“lower distilled liquors”
- transitiveTo bring down; to humble
- reflexiveTo humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
“I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.”
- transitiveTo reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
“lower the price of goods”
“lower the interest rate”
- intransitiveTo fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
“The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.”
- intransitiveTo decrease in value, amount, etc.
- transitiveTo reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- A bicycle suspension fork component.
Formslowers(present, singular, third-person) · lowering(participle, present) · lowered(participle, past) · lowered(past) · lowers(plural) · Lowers(plural)