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ADJECTIVE low COMPARATIVE lower SUPERLATIVE lowest
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lower English

Meaning lower meaning

What does lower mean?
Definitions in simple English

lower Verb

— If you lower something, you move it down. The man was lowered into the hole on a rope, so he could save the child.

lower

— verb (= take down) move something or somebody to a lower position take down the vase from the shelf — verb set lower lower a rating lower expectations — verb (= turn down) make lower or quieter turn down the volume of a radio — verb (= depress) cause to drop or sink The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir — noun the lower of two berths — verb (= frown) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

Synonyms lower synonyms

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lower English » English

reduce decrease let down drop bring down inferior lessen diminish under pull down turn down go down lour droop bend take down hang descend bow below subordinate put down humble frown down depress bottom abase stoop nether low decline subside sink minor lowest get down degrade cut be lowered abate strike shrink shorten lowered lower down leg fall downsize cut down

Topics lower topics

What do people use lower to talk about?
States Quantity More

Decrease
States Quantity More

Less
States Big Distance

Low

  • What words refer to making something low?
    lower
  • What words refer to being lower than another thing?
    lower lowest
Grammar Very Degree

To a smaller degree

  • What words refer to causing something to become smaller in degree?
    decrease lower reduce
  • What words indicate that something is smaller than another thing in degree?
    less than lower
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Lower something
Person Body Head

Eye
States Location Here, there On

Under, below
Person Body

Torso
Person Body Limb

Arm
Person Body Limb

Leg
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Quiet
Person Life Die

Funeral
Social behavior Relationships Neighbor

Social class
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Price
Physical actions Posture

Sit
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move down

Conjugation lower conjugation

How do you conjugate lower?

lower · verb

Examples lower examples

How do I use lower in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Keep it at a lower temperature.
Children who spend more time outdoors have a lower risk of myopia.
I would lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
A study by train operator Deutsche Bahn found that trains have a drastically lower carbon footprint than planes, cars or buses, yet many people are still flying short distances.
If you lower the price, I might buy it.
I won't lower myself to his level.
Demand for imported cars is increasing due to lower prices.
We would have bought the plane tickets if the price had been a little lower.
Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.
Can you lower the price to ten dollars?
I sometimes suffer from pain in my lower back.
Women are employed at a lower salary than men.
Her income barely maintained her in the lower middle class.
He negotiated a lower price with the real estate agent.
They say that beet juice can lower blood pressure.
Can you lower the price?
There were three buttons on the lower back of the robot.
The salary of a teacher is lower than that of a lawyer.
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
I have a bad pain in my lower back.
The actual price was lower than I had thought.
He wouldn't lower himself to apologize.
He bargained with the house agent for a lower price.
Our rates are now lower!

Movie subtitles

Both sides, lower your weapons!
The lower classes should just obey their betters without any back talk!
Then I lower you down.
So, lower your gaze and lower your knife.
Lower the mainsail, lower the flags.
Um, the starting salary, it's just a little bit lower than. I was expecting.
It may be lower than what you anticipated, but it is standard for this position.
The starting salary, it's just a little bit lower than I was expecting.
I can see another two soldiers on the lower levels.
There's a girl with huge. objectives in the lower hand window.
Lower those shades.
You have every chance of seeing things if you lower Scotch at that pace.
Lower frequencies mean longer wavelengths.
Lower your hand.
Lower than anything you may have ever experienced.
And you'll never lower yourself to me.
Lower away up there.
Talk lower.
Stand by to lower away.
Lower the boats!
Lower gun deck's awash, we're sinking.
Clear the launch and lower away!
Unto Adonai and Azrael, into the keeping of the lords of the flame and lower pits I consign this body to be forevermore consumed in this purging fire.
Slink lower, will you?
Lower your voices.
The Princess is crazy, how can the Royal Family announce the paralysis of her lower body?
And you're lower than any of them!
A few lines lower, the same paper. wrote about this.
You've done all you could to lower the prestige of decent people.
We'll lower it out the window with pulleys. Get the typewriter.
George comes from the so-called lower class, Dexter, the upper. Well?
Upper and lower, my eye. I'll take the lower, thanks.
We won't lower ourselves.
A little lower.
Ivor. fell under a tram, lower level.
When a boy who belongs uptown begins taking a girl from the lower end of town out buggy riding at night, people talk. You know that, don't you?
Stand by to lower away!

News and current affairs

We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.
It would seem not, as it is also true that very trusting people also have lower incomes than the average.
Perhaps most academics, who are at the lower end of the skill and qualification-adjusted income scale, do the same.
But we can take it a step further back: people's income is lower and their jobs are insecure because they were not spending a short time ago - and so on, backwards in time, in a repeating feedback loop.
The European Central Bank, fixated on inflation, will be slow to lower interest rates, and the European Stability Pact will make it impossible for fiscal policy to offset these weaknesses.
Conventional theory suggests that a single country (or group of countries) consolidating its finances can expect lower interest rates, a weaker currency, and an improved trade position.
Unions, too, are resisting the necessary wage reductions, and public and private debtors fear the prospect of insolvency if their assets and revenues are assessed at a lower value, while their debts remain unchanged.
Those crisis countries that do not want to take it upon themselves to lower their prices should be given the opportunity to leave the eurozone temporarily in order to devalue prices and debts.
Another assist may come from America's recent move to tap its strategic petroleum reserves in an effort to push oil prices lower.
Adjusted for inflation, gas has not been this cheap for the past 35 years, with the price this year 3-5 times lower than it was in the mid-2000's.
Meanwhile, the fracking bonanza in the US not only delivers a much greater reduction for free, but also creates long-term social benefits through lower energy costs.
And, with tighter labor-force attachment on the part of those who have jobs, the unemployment rate thereafter would likely be about 0.1 percentage points lower in the indefinite future.
How can growth be revived when austerity will almost surely mean a further decrease in aggregate demand, sending output and employment even lower?
When they eventually find work, it will be at a much lower wage.
Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.
The data show, intriguingly, that those who show levels of trust well below the average for the country they live in are likely to have lower incomes.
And in places where lights are not used very often, a lower-price incandescent bulb can cost less overall than the energy-efficient alternative.
On the contrary, it may have prompted the arrest of a lower-level indictee for crimes in Darfur.
Fewer remittances flowing into Uganda could mean less economic activity - or simply lower prices.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.

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