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Definition of lower : 1. A frowning; sullenness.
2. Cloudiness; gloominess.
3. Compar. of Low, a.
4. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
6. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
7. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
8. To frown; to look sullen.
9. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
10. To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
11. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
12. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

Synonyms:

disdain, depressed, disappoint, beneath, express, less, inflict, glower, cumulonimbus, get off, threaten, subordinate, rase, subterranean, inspect, visit, dishonor, impose, abase, cloud, billow, cut down, freeze off, turn away, subvert, column, minor, leer, spurn, underground, petty, push down, swallow, raze, set out, pass up, glare, cast down, under, reject, dismay, bring down, go down, low, chthonic, meet, inferior, lose your balance/footing, cloudy, discredit, below, deject, nether, cirrostratus, humiliate, secondary, frown, trim down, de-escalate, trim back, turn down, get down, infernal, fix with, near, sunken, set about, demote, dispirit, cumulus, bottom, lour, stare down, underneath, check on, demoralise, humble, light, shrivel, minimize, junior, disgrace, lowly, take down, see, scorn, examine, bring low, let down, put down, eye, tear down, bore into, loom, subnormal, demean, subaltern, scowl, overhang, start out, scale down, halve, menace, cirrus, bank, impend, cirrocumulus, down, low-level, junior-grade, look around, press down, survey, overthrow, begin, top-slice, commence, dismount, level, demoralize, stare, hang over, overturn, brew, underlying, land, unhorse, outstare, take in, ground, smaller, gaze, cut back, pooh-pooh, dismantle, refuse, underwater, pull down, rock bottom, lower berth, get, chthonian, lock, write down, underfoot, note, lower-ranking, look, set down, start

contracted, depleted, drained, abridged, decremented, truncated, lessened, compacted, abbreviated, diminished, shrunk, compressed, curtailed, abated, concentrated, receded, eroded, shortened, deflated, decreased

devaluate, degrade, devalue, mark down, slash, cheapen

crop, shear, discount, subtract, weed, bob, cut, prune, shave, trim, pare, dock, reduce, delete, depreciate, elide

settle, slide, come down, descend, plummet, decline, plunge, fall down, drop, slump, fall, topple, tumble, slip

clip, belittle, condense

undersell

decrease, erode, diminish, deduct, abate, drain, deplete, decrement, concentrate, compress, shrink, recede, dwindle, truncate, abridge, contract, deflate, curtail, lessen, subside, shorten, compact, abbreviate, die down

deepen, submerge

debase, attenuate, sink, depress

superficial, mere, unconsidered, unimportant, meaningless, of no consequence/of little consequence, irrelevant, inconsequential

Usage examples:

• All right, Josh; lower away! - "Menhardoc", George Manville Fenn.
• The big parasol slipped a little lower. - "The Mettle of the Pasture", James Lane Allen.
• " I did not mean that I thought you could live on, the same as before," said Balder in a lower voice. - "The Children of the World", Paul Heyse.