[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lower \low"er\, v. t. imp.  p. p. lowered; p. pr.  vb. n.
   lowering. from low, a.
   1. to let descend by its own weight, as something suspended;
      to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a
      sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a
      flag.
      1913 webster

            lowered softly with a threefold cord of love
            down to a silent grave.               --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. to reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to
      lower a chimney or turret.
      1913 webster

   3. to depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun;
      to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's
      ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
      1913 webster

   4. to reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as,
      to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's
      vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
      1913 webster

   5. to bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
      1913 webster

   6. to reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price
      of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
lowered lowering low 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lower \low"er\, v. i. imp.  p. p. lowered; p. pr.  vb. n.
   lowering. oe. lowren, luren; cf. d. loeren, lg. luren. g.
   lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and e. leer, lurk.
   1. to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be
      covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to
      show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
      1913 webster

            all the clouds that lowered upon our house. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to frown; to look sullen.
      1913 webster

            but sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
lowered lowering 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lowering \low"ering\, a.
   dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or
   sky.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lowering
     adj : darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" syn: heavy, sullen, threatening
     n 1: the act of causing to become less
     2: the act of causing something to move to a lower level syn:
        letting down
see also:
heavy sullen threatening letting down 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

220 moby thesaurus words for "lowering":
   acheronian, acherontic, cimmerian, stygian, abatement, about to be,
   abridgment, abusive, alleviation, already in sight, apocalyptic,
   approaching, at hand, attenuation, bad, baleful, baneful, beetle,
   beetle-browed, beetling, black, black-browed, bludgeoning,
   blustering, bodeful, boding, break, brewing, browbeating,
   bulldozing, bullying, cadence, catenary, cheapening, close,
   close at hand, clouded, cloudy, coming, comminatory, concavity,
   contraction, cut, dampening, damping, dark, dark and gloomy,
   de-escalation, debasement, decline, decrease, decrement,
   decrescence, decurrence, deduction, deepening, deflation,
   degradation, dejected, demotion, denunciatory, depreciation,
   depression, descent, detrusion, devaluation, digging, diminishment,
   diminution, dire, dive, doomful, dour, dreary, drilling, droop,
   ducking, dull, dumpish, dying, dying off, evil, evil-starred,
   excavation, extenuation, fade-out, fateful, fear-inspiring,
   foreboding, forthcoming, frowning, funereal, future, gathering,
   gloom, gloomful, gloominess, glooming, gloomy, glowering, glum,
   going to happen, grim, grum, hauling down, heavy, hectoring,
   hollowness, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-lighted, ill-lit,
   ill-omened, ill-starred, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending,
   in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store,
   in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inauspicious,
   incumbent, instant, intimidating, jutting, languishment, lapse,
   lessening, letup, looming, lower, lurking, markdown, melancholy,
   menacing, minacious, minatory, miniaturization, mining, mitigation,
   moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, near,
   near at hand, nearing, nose dive, nubilous, of evil portent,
   ominous, on the horizon, overcast, overclouded, overhanging,
   overhung, pending, plummet, plummeting, plunge, portending,
   portentous, preparing, price cut, price fall, price reduction,
   probing, projecting, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging,
   scaling down, scowling, simplicity, sinister, sinkage, sinking,
   slash, slump, somber, somberness, sombrous, sombrousness, stormy,
   submergence, subsidence, subtraction, sulky, sullen,
   superincumbent, surly, swag, terroristic, terrorizing,
   that will be, threatening, threatful, thrusting under, to come,
   tunneling, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising,
   unpropitious, untoward, upcoming, waiting, weakening

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