lowen

Definitions

To make or become low.

ambitransitive, rare

Examples

“[…] and a wide ware or float⟳ can be put⟳ down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present⟳ float⟳ at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float⟳ at Wangford mill; […]”

“Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling Olympus' heights unto the apex point⟳ Which man nor scales, Joveward, save⟳ when we fill⟳ His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air, Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise⟳?”

“And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowening.”

CEFR level