lowering
/ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ noun B2- The act of something being lowered.
- A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.
Plural lowerings
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Douglas and Barker are both in a conspiracy to conceal something; that they aided the murderer’s escape—or at least that they reached the room before he escaped—and that they fabricated evidence of his escape through the window, whereas in all probability they had themselves let him go by lowering the bridge.
It was so thick that nothing could be seen, and we had no difficulty in lowering West’s body on to the train.
Give me the last of my eggs, and I will go away and never come back,” she said, lowering her hood.
She entered the apartment, and seeing near her stepmother the stranger of whom she had already heard so much, saluted him without any girlish awkwardness, or even lowering her eyes, and with an elegance that redoubled the count’s attention.
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