lowering

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

present participle and gerund of lower

Noun

The act of something being lowered.

Adj

1. Dark and menacing.
2. That lowers or frowns.
3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.

Noun

Alternative form of louring.

lower

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Conceptos

amenazador

baja

decadencia

disminución

rebaja

reducción

siniestro

ceñudo

ominoso

amenazante

bajando

ominosa

adversidad

bajamiento

Sinónimos

decrease

sullen

reduction

threatening

fall

overcast

abatement

deterioration

dark

cloudy

☁️

letting down

heavy

ominous

abasement

baleful

descending

drop

descent

sinister

sinking

lessening

angry

😠

menacing

depression

degrading

diminution

dip

direful

disrating

droop

dropping

dull

enumeration

failure

falling

frowning

😦

gloomy

grave

🪦

humbling

humiliation

imminent

impendent

impending

louring

low

minacious

minatory

obscure

prolapse

pulling down

Traducciones

abaissement

baisse

abbassamento

verlaging

ribasso

abaissant

κατέβασμα

إغضاؤ

إغضاء

خَفْض

اغضاء

اغضاؤ

اغضائ

انخفاض

إنقاص

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: lahghenn

Heredado de inglés medio: louryng

Cognado con neerlandés: loerend

In summary

c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.