1. lowering - Noun
2. lowering - Adjective
3. lowering - Verb
5. lowering - Adjective Satellite
of Lower
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPower dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. Will Durant
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. Birch Bayh
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. George Will
The leaders of the free world keep lowering their standards and authoritarians keep taking more territory. Eventually people wake up and ask why Putin murders in the UK or hacks in the US. Why wouldn't he? You didn't stop him before. Garry Kasparov
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. Josh Billings
When a man raises his voice at home, know that he started lowering if elsewhere. African Proverb