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lowered the bar

lowered the bar is the simple past and past participle of lower the bar.

Meaning of lower the bar

Verb

lower the bar (third-person singular simple present lowers the bar, present participle lowering the bar, simple past and past participle lowered the bar)

  1. (idiomatic) to lower the standards of quality that are expected of or required for something.

Questions about lowered the bar

What is lowered the bar the simple past and past participle of?
Lowered the bar is the simple past and past participle of lower the bar.

Words near lowered the bar in the dictionary

  1. lowerclassman
  2. lowerclassmen
  3. lowered
  4. lowered one's guard
  5. lowered one's sights
  6. lowered the bar
  7. lowered the boom
  8. lowerer
  9. lowerers
  10. lowerest
  11. lowereth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lowered the bar (page history and authors); lower the bar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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