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Lighten up   /lˈaɪtən əp/   Listen
Lighten up

verb
1.
Make more cheerful.  Synonyms: buoy up, lighten.
2.
Become more cheerful.  Synonyms: buoy up, lighten.
3.
Make lighter or brighter.  Synonyms: brighten, lighten.
4.
Become lighter.  Synonym: lighten.






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"Lighten up" Quotes from Famous Books



... venerable-looking beards of gray moss, as devoid of color as everything else in the landscape; everything else, except the California wild grape, which, so far from being devoid of color, was gorgeous enough in itself to lighten up the whole foreground of the picture. Growing in clumps upon the ground, it was gay as a bed of tulips. Clambering up occasional tall trees, it flaunted its crimson and party-colored foliage with true bacchanalian jollity, each leaf seeming drunk with its own red wine. There is truly nothing ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... reply, as the boy looked around much as if he expected they had heard of him, and would recognize the name. at once. Not seeing the flush of joy he had expected would lighten up the faces of his acquaintances when they knew who he was, he walked on ahead, much as if he were angry, until they arrived at the end of the ...
— A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party • James Otis

... turned its little white, pinched face towards me; it was a pitiful sight, it looked so old, so wan, so wizened; but while I looked at it a bright smile came over it, just as you see a gleam of sunshine lighten up a cold, dark little pool of water, so this smile danced over the child's features. I was vain enough for an instant to think myself the cause of the little creature's pleasure, but, remembering I was invisible, I turned at some ...
— The Princess Idleways - A Fairy Story • Mrs. W. J. Hays



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