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lowered

/loh-er/US // ˈloʊ ər //UK // (ˈləʊə) //

降低了,降低的,降低了的,降低

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
    • : to make lower in height or level: to lower the water in a canal.
    • : to reduce in amount, price, degree, force, etc.
    • : to make less loud: Please lower your voice.
    • : to bring down in rank or estimation; degrade; humble; abase, as by some sacrifice of self-respect or dignity: His bad actions lowered him in my eyes.
    • : Music. to make lower in pitch; flatten.
    • : Phonetics. to alter the articulation of by increasing the distance of the tongue downward from the palate: The vowel of “clerk” is lowered to in the British pronunciation.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become lower, grow less, or diminish, as in amount, intensity, or degree: The brook lowers in early summer. Stock prices rise and lower constantly.
    • : to descend; sink: the sun lowering in the west.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : comparative of low.
    • : of or relating to those portions of a river farthest from the source.
    • : Stratigraphy. noting an early division of a period, system, or the like: the Lower Devonian.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a denture for the lower jaw.
    • : a lower berth.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbreduce, minimize

Examples

  • Another 2020 report found lower concentrations for sea ice cores, ranging from 2,000 to 17,000 plastic particles per cubic meter.

  • The lower triangle is similar to the large triangle, while the upper one is the other type of triangle with angles measuring 36, 36 and 108 degrees.

  • Case rate in schools among elementary andmiddle school students is lower thanthe rate in the overall community.

  • An emergency authorization for a vaccine is typically a lower standard than full approval.

  • The Supreme Court returned the case to the lower court, which again upheld the conviction.

  • After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.

  • Both the Ramos sons squeezed their eyes and lowered their heads, doing their best not to cry.

  • Last May, Israel lowered the minimum age for gender reassignment surgery from 21 to 18.

  • But as soon as she pressed the razor blade against her neck, the guard lowered the gun.

  • To increase profits, hospitals did what they could to increase “customers” and they lowered physician salaries.

  • First the chimneys sank down through the roof, as if they were being lowered into the cellar.

  • The extent to which the man was lowered and lost in the risen Lord is especially revealed in the fourth Gospel.

  • The barrier between them lowered perceptibly again, and Tom felt a momentary return of the confidence he had lost.

  • The face of the seated man was lowered, but from under heavy brows his abnormally large eyes regarded her fixedly.

  • His open brow lowered, and his fingers instinctively began playing with the hilt of his sabre.