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lower

3 verb
     
low‧er3 also lour British English [intransitive] literary
1 when the sky or the weather lowers, it becomes dark because there is going to be a storm [= darken]:
lowering clouds
2 to look threatening or annoyed [= frown]:
The other driver lowered at us as we passed him.
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