LOWERING

To frown; to look sullen.

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

Example: "Lower a bucket into a well"

To pull down

Example: "To lower a flag"

To reduce the height of

Example: "Lower a chimney or turret"

To depress as to direction

Example: "Lower the aim of a gun"

To make less elevated

Example: "To lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes"

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

Example: "Lower distilled liquors"

To bring down; to humble

Example: "Lower one's pride"

(lower oneself) to humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

Example: "I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes."

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

Example: "Lower the interest rate"

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

Example: "The river lowered as rapidly as it rose."

To decrease in value, amount, etc.