The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - lower°v.

1) drop, reduce, decrease, mark down, discount, lessen, diminish, downgrade, cut, slash: Prices on all goods have been lowered. 2) let or move or bring or put down, drop: The drawbridge was lowered and the knights rode across. They lowered the coffin into the grave. 3) cut or lop off, cut or take down, reduce, diminish, crop, trim: We lowered the hedge by a foot. 4 abase, debase, degrade, discredit, shame, disgrace, demean, belittle, humble, humiliate; stoop, deign, condescend: I wouldn't lower myself to so much as speak to him. 5) turn down, quieten, moderate, modulate, soften, tone down: He lowered his voice to a whisper. --adj. 6) further or farther down: My mother has a flat on a lower floor of the building. 7) earlier: These primitive amphibians are from the Lower Carboniferous. 8) lower case. small, minuscule: Use capitals for the first letters and lower case for the rest in these names.