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Another word for lighten

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lighten

v.

To make lighter
unburden, disburden, make lighter, reduce the load of, lessen the weight of, uplift, buoy up, mitigate, levitate, alleviate, make less burdensome, disencumber, take off a load, remove, take from, pour out, throw overboard, jettison, reduce, cut down, put off, facilitate, upraise, make buoyant, take off weight, eradicate, shift, change; see also decrease 1, empty 2, unload.
Antonyms load*, burden, overload.
To ease
ease, comfort, cheer, gladden; see comfort, relieve 2. See syn. study at relieve.

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Another word for lighten

verb

To provide, cover, or fill with light:
illume, illuminate, illumine, light¹. See light
To become brighter or fairer:
brighten, clear (up). See clear

verb

To make less severe or more bearable:

allay, alleviate, assuage, comfort, ease, lessen, mitigate, palliate, relieve. See increase

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"Give me?" she teased, trying to lighten the mood.
Jackson seized every opportunity to point out the upsides, and tried his best to lighten her mood.
In order to lighten the palace the Venetian Institute of Science, Letters and Arts removed its headquarters and its natural history collection to Santo Stefano.
22, 1790) he felt it to be his duty to annul all his principal reforms, so as to lighten the difficulties of his successor.
The second and third series containing only about 400 species, the Aglypha still present the appalling number of moo species, and even the grouping of this mass into three sub-families does not lighten the task of arranging the chaos, since one of these sub-families contains only one, and the other but a very few species.

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