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bending
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?nd??/
Verb
bending
- present participle of bend
Noun
bending (plural bendings)
- A motion or action that bends.
- a bending of the knees
- An instance of something being adapted or distorted.
- bendings of the rules
Translations
Faroese
Etymology
benda +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?nt??k/
- Rhymes: -?nt??k
Noun
bending f (genitive singular bendingar, plural bendingar)
- inflection
Declension
Derived terms
- ábending
- stigbending
Icelandic
Etymology
From benda +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?nti?k/
Noun
bending f (genitive singular bendingar, nominative plural bendingar)
- pointing, showing, indicating
- hint, clue
Declension
Derived terms
- ábending (“comment, tip, advice”)
- frábending (“contraindication”)
- sakbending (“criminal line-up”)
- vísbending (“clue, indication”)
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lowering
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English louryng, louringe, lowrynge, later variant of lourand, lowrand, lourande, lowrande, equivalent to lour +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch loerend (“lurking, louring”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?la??r??/, enPR: ?l??riNG
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?la??r??/
Adjective
lowering (comparative more lowering, superlative most lowering)
- (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.
- Synonyms: gloomy, threatening
- That lowers or frowns.
- Synonyms: frowning, scowling, gloomy, sullen, glowering
- Lurking, skulking, menacing.
Noun
lowering (plural lowerings)
- Alternative form of louring.
Alternative forms
- louring
Derived terms
Etymology 2
c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?lo?(?)r??/, enPR: ?l??riNG
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l???r??/
Verb
lowering
- present participle of lower
Noun
lowering (plural lowerings)
- The act of something being lowered.
Translations
Anagrams
- roweling
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