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lower

verb as in let down; fall

verb as in belittle, disgrace

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Example Sentences

Dossi initially was listed in critical condition with wounds to his arm and lower back.

Girls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.

Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.

States were encouraged and allowed to lower standards to make it appear they were improving.

I learned that he was working and living in the Lower East Side, delivering orders for an Italian restaurant and raising two kids.

On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.

First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.

There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.

It depends upon the fact that bile acids lower surface tension.

The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

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On this page you'll find 228 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lower, such as: curtailed, decreased, diminished, junior, lessened, and low.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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