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1. let down, drop, depress; thrust down, detrude, plunge, immerse, engulf, souse, douse; let sink, vail, dip, submerge, submerse; bury, sink, put down; raze, level, bring down, fell, demolish; bend down, couch, duck.
2. reduce, decrease, diminish, lessen, abate, bate; mitigate, alleviate, allay, assuage, Rare. lenify, palliate; appease, sooth, Sl. simmer down, relieve, ease, soften, cushion, mollify; quell, slake, dull, blunt, take the edge off of; modify, temper; minimize, extenuate, make light of, soft-pedal, play down, downplay.
3. modulate, soften, quiet, hush, subdue, Music. flatten; turn down, tone down, soft-pedal, muffle, damp, deaden, dull, mute; stifle, throttle, suppress, repress.
4. degrade, debase, abase, defame, vitiate; discredit, devalue, detract; shame, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, mortify; belittle, demean, deprecate, disparage, deflate, derogate; discredit, tarnish, taint, vilify; (all of oneself) stoop, condescend, deign.
5. depreciate, devaluate, downgrade; demote, de-class, disrate, cashier, disbar, defrock, depose; discount, mark down, mark off, deduct, subtract, take off.
6. subside, let up, moderate, dwindle, run low; intermit, cease, decline, fall off; wane, taper off, drop off, tail off, fade away, ebb, slacken; weaken, fail, languish.
7. descend, come down, sink, go down; recede, retro-cede, fall away, fall back; droop, flop, sag, flag, swag; slope, dip, slant, lean, list, cant, tilt, incline; stoop, slump, dive, plunge, nosedive; founder, go under.
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1. darken, grow dark, darkle, dusk, blacken, black; gloom, cloud up or over, becloud, overshadow, shadow, dim, grow dim; loom, overhang, impend, threaten, be brewing, be in the works.
2. frown, look sullen, lour, pull or make a long face, stick out one's lower lip, turn down the corners of one's mouth, pout, sulk, mope, Scot. glunch; scowl, glower, glare, look black, look daggers, knit one's brow, Sl. give [s.o.] a dirty look, Sl. don the hate-mug.

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  • Löwer — ist der Name von Johannes Löwer (* 1944), Mediziner und Biochemiker Peter Löwer (* 1944), deutscher Fußballspieler Wolfgang Löwer (* 1946), Rechtswissenschaftler und Richter am Verfassungsgerichtshof Nordrhein Westfalen Di …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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