Lower
Lower verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.
Usage example: decided to lower his career ambitions to something more achievable
Supplement is an antonym for lower.
Supplement
Supplement verb - Add as a supplement to what seems insufficient.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When a vampire is hungry and isn't quite so decent or hard up as to lower himself to only buying blood at the butcher's or trapping and draining small animals instead, their dietary supplement of preference is human blood.
Source: Kiss of the Vampire -
This allows the Big Bad to incite a revolt by exposing the fact that the government has been skimming from the supplement fund and allowing the lower classes to suffer potassium deficiency.
Source: All Planets Are Earth-Like
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Supplement and Lower. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lower/supplement
Lower & Supplement. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lower/supplement>.
Supplement or Lower. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lower/supplement.
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