Clues for the word "LOWER"
We've had 83 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 163 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on November 18, 2025.
Definition of lower
- a. - Compar. of Low, a.
- a. - To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
- a. - To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
- a. - To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
- a. - To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
- a. - To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
- a. - To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
- v. i. - To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- v. i. - To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- v. i. - To frown; to look sullen.
- n. - Cloudiness; gloominess.
- n. - A frowning; sullenness.
Referring Clues
- Humble
- Farther down
- ___ Slobbovia (remote locale)
- Toward the bottom
- Dim
- Reduce
- Mark down in price
- Bring down
- Decrease
- ___ 48 (the U.S. except Alaska and Hawaii)
- Drop
- Sink
- Turn down
- Further down
- Not as high
- Demote
- Reduce, as a price
- Pullman berth
- More humble in status
- Let down
- Put down
- Less lofty
- Bunk option
- Instruction to someone hanging a painting
- Not so high
- Inferior
- Degrade
- Diminish
- Bring down some
- Quieter
- Depress
- Debase
- Decrease or devalue
- Where to go to win at limbo
- Devalue
- Deeper
- Word to a back-scratcher
- Not so elevated
- Dim, as lights
- Berth choice
- Closer to sea level
- Reduce in height
- Nearer the ground
- Less high
- Preferred berth, to most
- Opposite of "uplift"
- Not upper
- Opposite of higher
- Inferior cow?
- Inferior part of flowers
- "Card Sharks" option
- Better seat level
- What parents want volume to be
- The Gaslight Anthem "The Queen of ___ Chelsea"
- Frown, even more depressed
- Ox takes head off plant
- Telephone bell starting off, but not so loud
- Scowl
- Inferior crop blossoms
- Look furious, but reduce it
- Scowl when let down
- Less neat, say
- Under a cow?
- Part of 19 across 19 down lacking capital, reportedly
- Subordinate
- Opposite of raise
- Pare down
- Scowl or frown
- Neat put down
- Below
- Preferable berth
- Abase
- Bring down cow?
- Send down below
- Inferior cow?
- Now at a discount
- Below, in rank
- Descend
- Word before "the bar" or "the boom"
- Bring down, as a flag
- Scowl when demoted
- Nether
- Lessen
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - November 18, 2025
- LA Times - October 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 18, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 06, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 24, 2024
- LA Times - September 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 25, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 04, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - November 18, 2023
- Mirror Mini - October 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 22, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 12, 2023
- USA Today - May 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 08, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2023
- New York Times - December 21, 2022
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