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lowering the bar

lowering the bar is the present participle and gerund 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 lowering the bar

What is lowering the bar the present participle and gerund of?
Lowering the bar is the present participle and gerund of lower the bar.

Words near lowering the bar in the dictionary

  1. lowerest
  2. lowereth
  3. lowering
  4. lowering one's guard
  5. lowering one's sights
  6. lowering the bar
  7. lowering the boom
  8. loweringly
  9. lowerings
  10. lowermost
  11. lowers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lowering 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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