Lessened Synonyms and Antonyms

Wear off or die down
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. subsided
  2. reduced
  3. dwindled
  4. diminished
  5. decreased
  6. ebbed
  7. fallen
  8. whittled
  9. tapered
  10. weakened
  11. waned
  12. truncated
  13. tempered
  14. softened
  15. slumped
  16. shrunken
  17. relieved
  18. rebated
  19. receded
  20. plummeted
  21. pared
  22. palliated
  23. narrowed
  24. petered
  25. mollified
  26. mitigated
  27. minimized
  28. lowered
  29. lightened
  30. impaired
  31. eased
  32. declined
  33. disparaged
  34. diluted
  35. abated
  36. depreciated
  37. depleted
  38. demoted
  39. drained
  40. degraded
  41. curtailed
  42. contracted
  43. constricted
  44. condensed
  45. compressed
  46. belittled
  47. attenuated
  48. assuaged
  49. alleviated
  50. allayed
  51. adulterated
  52. abridged
  53. abbreviated
To make less; reduce.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decreased
Impaired by diminution
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. diminished
  2. vitiated
  3. weakened

Lessened Sentence Examples

  • His influence seemed scarcely lessened in his retirement.

  • Molly offered her a food and water cube, both of which lessened the pain throbbing through her.

  • This gave rise to extensive alterations in their construction and decoration, which has much lessened their value as authentic memorials of the religious art of the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

  • In dry and dusty mines the danger may be greatly lessened by sprinkling the working places and passages, and the removal of the accumulated dust and fine coal.

  • In primitive religions inclusive of almost every serious offence even in fields now regarded as merely social or political, its scope is gradually lessened to a single part of one section of ecclesiastical criminology, following inversely the development of the idea of holiness from the concrete to the abstract, from fetishism to mysticism.

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