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lowering

lowering

2.8
To make something less in amount, value, or level
  • noun
  • /ˈloʊərɪŋ/
translation icon : reducción
  • The lowering of prices helped more customers afford the products.
  • blood pressure lowering
  • pressure lowering
  • lowering treatment

So the very low carb group had double the amount of lowering of their blood pressure.

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Examples

  • And it does by itself seem to help a bit with, you know, lowering people's blood pressure and lowering stress and all that sort of stuff.

  • It's better for you for some aspects of heart disease, but it doesn't have such a good effect on lowering cholesterol.

  • But I feel like it's bigger now simply because of that lowering of trust.

  • We choose not to participate in lowering prices.

  • OK, that might be lowering expectations too much.

  • So the very low carb group had double the amount of lowering of their blood pressure.

  • And and I just, I just add, so victory is interpreted in this arena as not lowering costs, but lowering the rate of growth of costs.

  • And we know that that lipoproteins play a role in actually lowering LP's levels in from in our circulation.

  • These overviews were designed and reported by a consensus of members of the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration was established to undertake a series of prospectively designed systematic overviews to investigate the effects of different blood-pressure-lowering regimens on mortality and major cardiovascular events.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

reduction
vslowering
451 3.2

A decrease in size, amount, degree, or price

is the intentional action causing something to become less in amount
decrease
vslowering
84 2.2

A drop in amount or number

focuses on the act that causes the amount or degree to drop
shrinking
vslowering
7 3.2

A decrease in size, amount, or value

stresses causing that process to happen rather than only the result
shrinkage
vslowering
5 5.1

A decrease in size, amount, or value

describes the action that brings about that smaller result
minimization
vslowering
5 5.5

The act of making something as small as possible

is less extreme, covering any act that makes something less rather than minimal
diminution
vslowering
5 7.9

A decrease in size, amount, or importance

is the general act of causing less in amount value or degree
lessening
vslowering
4 3.8

A decrease in amount, size, or strength

highlights the deliberate causing of something to become less overall
diminishment
vslowering
4 6.7

A decrease in size, strength or importance

emphasizes actively causing that smaller or weaker state rather than simply occurring
step-down
vslowering
3 4.6

A decrease in amount or level, for example moving to a lower job

is a general action that can include such particular instances
cutdown
vslowering
2 4.0

A drop in the number or amount of something

is the broader action that can produce such single event reductions
decrement
vslowering
  • Specialized
1 7.7

A small reduction in an amount or number

is the general act that produces such a specific reduced amount
tapering
vslowering
6.5

A slow reduction in size or amount done in stages

covers any act causing less, not only gradual or staged change
minification
vslowering
7.4

Making something smaller in size so it fits into a small space

is broader, covering any action that causes amounts or values to drop

Antonyms

Becoming greater in amount or number

Compounds

4.3

A medicine that reduces fat, especially cholesterol, in the blood

3.5

A medicine that lowers cholesterol in the blood

How Much

collapse
350 4.1
fall
191 1.0
lowering
2.8
decrease
84 2.2
to dip
47 2.5

Surface Forms

lowering singular
lowerings plural

Morphology

lowering = lower (transparent) = lower + ing

Regular nominalization from the verb 'lower' meaning 'the act of making something less', which directly matches the sense.

Etymology

Lowering comes from the simple word low, which means 'not high' or 'less'. So lowering is the act of making something less in amount, value, or degree.