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Collocations for lower - verb

ADVERB

carefully, gently
gradually, slowly
quickly
Cristina blushed and quickly lowered her eyes.
down

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PREPOSITION

into
She lowered herself into the driver's seat.
onto
He carefully lowered the sleeping child onto the bed.
to
She lowered herself down to the floor.

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Lower is used with these nouns as the subject:
eye

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Lower is used with these nouns as the object:
age, anchor, arm, barrier, bill, binoculars, blind, boat, bow, casket, ceiling, cholesterol, coffin, consumption, cost, dosage, duty, emission, expectation, expense, eye, fare, fee, flag, flap, forecast, gaze, gun, head, heat, hood, immunity, intake, level, lid, limit, morale, payment, premium, prestige, price, profile, rate, rating, resistance, risk, sail, shade, shield, sight, speed limit, stake, standard, status, tariff, tax, temperature, threshold, value, voice, voltage, volume, wage, weapon

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Collocations for lower - adj.

Lower is used with these nouns:
animal, atmosphere, back, berth, body, bracket, chamber, chest, class, classification, corner, court, deck, edge, end, eyelid, flank, floor, gum, half, intestine, jaw, layer, leg, level, likelihood, limb, limit, lip, mammal, management, part, portion, slope, storey, surface, thigh, third, torso, valley

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