How to pronounce“lowering”in English
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Definitions of “lowering”
present participle and gerund of lower
“Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.”
The act of something being lowered.
“Speeds up to 90 m.p.h. were permitted and achieved on the regular daily main line services, but as the pressure of external demands imposed on the railways by the needs of war increased it became necessary to accept handicaps which resulted in a general lowering of standards of track conditions.”
A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.
Dark and menacing.
“The morning had been intensely hot, with but little wind; and the lowering gloomy aspect of the clouds appeared to indicate the approach of one of those sudden gales peculiar to tropical climates, and which, although of short duration, are generally productive of mischief.”
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