lowering

present participle and gerund of lowerform-ofgerundparticiple

• Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

The act of something being lowered.

• Speeds up to 90 m.p.h. were permitted and achieved on the regular daily main line services, but as the pressure of external demands imposed on the railways by the needs of war increased it became necessary to accept handicaps which resulted

A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.

Dark and menacing.

• The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
• Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

That lowers or frowns.

• One glance sufficed to identify the intruder, for none but he could boast of such a dark, lowering countenance ; and all exclaimed in mingled wonder and terror at his unwonted presence in those sunlit regions:
• A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.

Lurking, skulking, menacing.

• They might have stayed until dusk, undisturbed by Schmidt's casual customers, had it not been for the entrance of three grimy and lowering men.
• The outsize nature of Norse mythological characters is well noted in Caselli's dramatic close-ups, in which the powerful, lowering figures of Odin or Thor are backed by ice and rock, massive trolls, gigantic eagles and wolves.

Alternative form of louring.alt-ofalternative