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adjective
Darkened by clouds
Synonyms: threatening, overhanging, heavy, menacing, sullen
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verb
Make lower or quieter
Synonyms: depressing, dropping, louring, devaluing, depreciating, cheapening, demoting, lessening, dipping, descending, grounding, diminishing, reducing, demeaning, degrading, debasing, abating, abasing, subsiding, submerging, downgrading, sinking, scowling, muting, decreasing, immersing, humiliating, humbling, glowering, glaring, frowning, falling, drooping, disparaging, dishonoring
Antonyms: complimenting, lauding, praising
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verb
To bring oneself down to a lower level of behavior
Synonyms: stooping, sinking, descending
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verb
To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising
Synonyms: truncating, trimming, slashing, shearing, pruning, paring, lopping, cutting, cropping, clipping, chopping
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verb
Cause to drop or sink
Synonyms: dropping, depressing
Antonyms: increasing, rising, heightening, elevating
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verb
To be imminent
Synonyms: threatening, overhanging, menacing, looming, brewing
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verb
Move something or somebody to a lower position
Synonyms: scowling, glowering, glaring
Antonyms: raising, elevating, increasing
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verb
Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
Synonyms: glowering, scowling, louring, frowning
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noun
The act of causing something to move to a lower level
Synonyms: letting-down