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The direction gravity prefers and ambitions resent.
means To bring or move something to a less elevated position, or to reduce something in amount, degree, or intensity.
from Two words sharing a spelling: the comparative of low, from Old English lah; and the verb to lour or scowl, from Middle English louren, meaning to look threatening — as in lowering skies before a storm.
Twin meaningLowering clouds means scowling, not descending.
Volume knobLowering applies to sound, prices, and standards alike.
Comparative rootIt out-lows the merely low.