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lower one's sights

lower one's sights verb: to lower one's expectations and accept less than one was hoping for or striving toward.

Verb

lower one's sights (third-person singular simple present lowers one's sights, present participle lowering one's sights, simple past and past participle lowered one's sights)

  1. (idiomatic) to lower one's expectations and accept less than one was hoping for or striving toward

Forms of lower one's sights

third-person singular presentlowers one's sights
present participlelowering one's sights
past participlelowered one's sights
pastlowered one's sights

Questions about lower one's sights

What does lower one's sights mean?
Lower one's sights means to lower one's expectations and accept less than one was hoping for or striving toward.
What part of speech is lower one's sights?
Lower one's sights is a verb.
What is the past tense of lower one's sights?
The past tense of lower one's sights is lowered one's sights.

Words near lower one's sights in the dictionary

  1. Lower Ninth Ward
  2. Lower Normandy
  3. Lower Norton
  4. Lower Nubia
  5. lower one's guard
  6. lower one's sights
  7. lower order
  8. lower orders
  9. Lower Oxford
  10. Lower Paleozoic
  11. Lower Paleozoic Age

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