LOWERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lowered mean? 

• LOWERED (adjective)
  The adjective LOWERED has 1 sense:

1. below the surround or below the normal position

  Familiarity information: LOWERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOWERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Below the surround or below the normal position

Context example:

with lowered eyes

Similar:

down (shut)

Antonym:

raised (located or moved above the surround or above the normal position)

 Context examples 

Blood levels of several inflammatory markers were lowered.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

The horses both of knights and squires were speedily lowered into a broad lighter, and reached the shore almost as soon as their masters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the cells were transplanted into diabetic mice, abnormally high blood glucose levels lowered.

(Developing Insulin-Producing Cells to Treat Diabetes, NIH)

The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned against the tree.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

So I lowered the big starboard anchor, giving plenty of slack; and by afternoon I was at work on the windlass.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the Licht group's latest study, the molten air battery operating temperature has been lowered to 600 degrees Celsius or less.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Must it not have been so, Marianne? speaking to her in a lowered voice.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A common over-the-counter allergy drug, chlorcyclizine HCl (CCZ), lowered hepatitis C virus levels in infected mice.

(Allergy Drug Treats Hepatitis C in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Hands lay as I had left him, all fallen together in a bundle and with his eyelids lowered as though he were too weak to bear the light.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

By inhibiting xanthine oxidase, uric acid production is reduced and serum uric acid levels are lowered.

(Febuxostat, NCI Thesaurus)