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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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lower

/ˈləʊə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈləʊə/
lower
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

lo - wer -> lower

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အောက်။ အောက်ထပ်။ (v) အောက်သို့ချ(ပေး)သည်။ ထိုင်ချသည်။ အောက်စိုက်ကြည့်သည်။ ချသည်။ နှိမ့်သည်။ ချသည်။ လျှော့သည်။ လျော့စေသည်။ ကျစေသည်။ ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနိမ့်ကျစေသည်။ အောက်ကျ ခံသည်။ အောက်ကျို့သည်။ မိုးတိမ်များ) နိမ့်ကျလာသည်။ (မိုးမှောင်)ကျသည်။ (adj[com]) ပို၍နိမ့် (adj[sup]) အနိမ့်ဆုံး

Full entry

lower1 / 'lǝƱǝ(r) / adj

အောက်။ အောက်ထပ်။
one’s lower lip/jaw ❍ the lower deck of a ship. Compare UPPER, LOW1 ၆
❏ lower case n [U] (အက္ခရာပုံ) အသေး။ lower-case lettering. Compare UPPER CASE
❏ Lower House (also Lower Chamber ) n (လွှတ်တော် နှစ်ရပ်တွင် ရွေးကောက်ခံအမတ်များနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော၊ ဦးရေ ပိုများသော) အောက်လွှတ်တော်။ eg the House of Commons in Britain or the House of Representatives in the USA.

lower2 / 'lǝƱǝ(r) / v

၁။ (က) အောက်သို့ချ(ပေး)သည်။ ထိုင်ချသည်။ အောက်စိုက်ကြည့်သည်။ ချသည်။
lower supplies from a helicopter to the stranded men ❍ She lowered herself slowly into a chair. He lowered his newspaper and looked round. ❍ lower one’s eyes/gaze (ie look down) ❍ lower a flag / window. (ခ) နှိမ့်သည်။ ချသည်။ lower (the height of) the ceiling.
၂။ လျှော့သည်။ လျော့စေသည်။ ကျစေသည်။ lower one’s voice to a whisper. ❍ A poor diet lowers one’s resistance to illness. ❍ Stocks lowered in value.
၃။ ~ oneself (by doing sth) (infml ) (esp in negative sentences) ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနိမ့်ကျစေသည်။ အောက်ကျ ခံသည်။ အောက်ကျို့သည်။ Don’t lower yourself by asking him for help.

lower3 (also lour ) / 'laƱǝ(r) / v

(မိုးတိမ်များ) နိမ့်ကျလာသည်။ (မိုးမှောင်)ကျသည်။
Huge clouds lowered over the bay.

More examples
  • The upper and lower lips
  • The lower floors of the building
  • The lower ranks of the army
Synonyms
inferior, subordinate, lesser, minor, junior, poorer, worse, abase, abate, angry stare, bad eye, belittle, below, bemean, beneath, bring down, bring low, bush-league, cast down, clip, concealed by, condescend, couch, covered by, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, de-escalate, debase, decrease, decreased, decry, deflate, degrade, deign, demean, demit, demote, depreciate, depress, descend, detrude, devaluate, devalue, diminish, diminished, disgrace, down from, downgrade, downsize, droop, drop, glare, ground, hand down, held down, humble, humiliate, in the power of, lessen, lessened, let down, let fall, low, lower rung, make lower, mark down, minimize, moderate, neath, nether, on the bottom, on the nether side, on the underside, pare, pared down, pressed down, prune, pull down, push down, reduce, reduced, roll back, scale down, second-class, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, set down, shave, sink, slash, smaller, soften, stoop, subjacent, submerge, substract, take down, the bottom, to the bottom, tone down, under, underneath, undervalue, write off
Antonyms
build up, compliment, develop, elevate, elevated, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, heighten, higher, honor, important, improve, increase, increased, laud, lengthen, major, praise, prolong, promote, raise, rise, rise above, strengthen, superior, upgrade
Cross references
inferiorsubordinatelesserminorjuniorpoorerworseabaseabateangry starebad eyebelittlebelowbemeanbeneathbring downbring lowbush-leaguecast downclipconcealed bycondescendcouchcovered bycurtailcurtailedcutcut back
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