Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective pointed downward. Opposite of
raised .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lower .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective below the surround or below the normal position
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Examples
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Burke gave the process a huge push this week, letting it be known he's adjusted - many would use to the term lowered - his sights to take a deal for a draft pick and/or a prospect, rather than the top-six forward he wanted to spur playoff chances.
Winnipeg Sun 2010
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That all results in lowered energy consumption for the creation and transportation of food.
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In a bold escape, the men were lowered from a third-floor window and fled in a waiting truck as security forces searched the hotel.
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Be wary of taking any republican at face value on policies that result in lowered Florida workforce.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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And so it was, on occasion, that he ordered all forth from his big grass house, and, alone with his problem, lowered from the roof-beams the matting-wrapped parcels of heads of men he had once seen live and who had passed into the mysterious nothingness of death.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Journalist Powers bemoans the reigning dogma of digital maximalism that requires us to divide our attention between ever more e-mails, text messages, cellphone calls, video streams, and blinking banners, resulting, he argues, in lowered productivity and a distracted life devoid of meaning and depth.
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A boat was lowered from the stranger's side and began to pull toward them.
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Not in lowered prices, thus increasing the industry's competitiveness.
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Journalist Powers bemoans the reigning dogma of digital maximalism that requires us to divide our attention between ever more e-mails, text messages, cellphone calls, video streams, and blinking banners, resulting, he argues, in lowered productivity and a distracted life devoid of meaning and depth.
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He sat down, and in lowered voice queried: Now what's Tai-Hotauri up to?
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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