lowering
意味
- 低くする,低下させる;堕落させる
- (空模様が)険悪な,荒れ模様の
- しかめっつらの,(顔つきが)不機嫌な
例文
Sadako watched the sun lowering in the west and became blind.
貞子は西に沈んでゆく太陽をみて、メクラになった。
The president wants to jump-start the sluggish economy by lowering taxes.
大統領は減税によって、低迷している経済を活性化させることを望んでいる。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.