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Lowered

adjective

Below the surround or below the normal position.

Lower

verb

(past & past part. lowered; pres. part. lowering)

Move something or somebody to a lower position. Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down.

Set lower. Synonym: lour. "Lower expectations"

Make lower or quieter. Synonyms: lour, turn down.

Cause to drop or sink. Synonym: depress.

Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval. Synonyms: frown, glower, lour.

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... which act as a great commander-in-chief and we follow in obedience to their commands. Our country needs today more than ever before, the girl with high ideals, for it is when ideals are lowered that character is weakened and sin and ...

— The Girl and Her Religion • Margaret Slattery

... snow was not far off; for on the Yukon it must get warm in order to snow. Also, on this day, they encountered ten miles of chaotic ice-jams, where, a thousand times, they lifted the loaded sled over the huge cakes by the strength of their arms and lowered it down again. Here the dogs were well-nigh useless, and both they and the men were tried excessively by the roughness of the way. An hour's extra running that night caught up only part of ...

— Burning Daylight • Jack London

... trees upon the bank of the creek, and as Ethne spoke she raised her eyes from the ground. She saw that the little boat which she had noticed tacking up the creek while she hesitated upon the terrace had run its nose into the shore. The sail had been lowered, the little pole mast stuck up above the grass bank of the garden, and upon the bank itself a man was standing and staring vaguely towards the house as though not very sure ...

— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason

... in the bay was somewhat smoother than it had hitherto been. In a moment his sail was lowered and his anchor let go. ...

— Michael Penguyne - Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast • William H. G. Kingston

... "You don't mean that. Why did you say you liked me? Have you changed your mind? Look at me." (She had lowered her eyes.) "Look at me! You ...

— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser

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