HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of lowen | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized

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

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

Learn this word in context

See lowen used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course