lower🔊

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Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.

Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.

(of strata or geological time periods) Older.

(POS=adverb)

To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

To pull down

To reduce the height of

To depress as to direction

To make less elevated

To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

To bring down; to humble

(reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.

To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

To decrease in value, amount, etc.

To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.

(lour)