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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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ebb
English
Etymology
From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abj? (compare West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”)), from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó. (compare Old English af). More at of, off.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?b, IPA(key): /?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
ebb (plural ebbs)
- The receding movement of the tide.
- 1824, Mary Shelley, Time
- Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!
- 1824, Mary Shelley, Time
- A gradual decline.
- 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
- Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man
- This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed.
- 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Painting was then at its lowest ebb.
- 2002, Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 22 & 29 April
- A "lowest ebb" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "ebb" might easily have lasted for years.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
Antonyms
- flood
- flow
Derived terms
- ebb and flow
- ebb tide
Related terms
- neap
- tide
Translations
Verb
ebb (third-person singular simple present ebbs, present participle ebbing, simple past and past participle ebbed)
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)
Synonyms
ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out, reflux, wane
Translations
Adjective
ebb (comparative ebber, superlative ebbest)
- low, shallow
- All the sea lying betweene, is verie ebbe, full of shallowes and shelves
Anagrams
- BBE
Swedish
Noun
ebb c
- ebb; low tide
- Antonyms: flod, högvatten
- Synonym: lågvatten
Declension
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