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Lightening   /lˈaɪtənɪŋ/   Listen
Lightening

noun
1.
Descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped.
2.
Changing to a lighter color.  Synonym: whitening.


Lighten

verb
(past & past part. lightened; pres. part. lightening)
1.
Make more cheerful.  Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up.  Antonym: weigh down.
2.
Reduce the weight on; make lighter.
3.
Become more cheerful.  Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up.
4.
Make lighter or brighter.  Synonyms: brighten, lighten up.  Antonym: darken.
5.
Become lighter.  Synonym: lighten up.  Antonym: darken.
6.
Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive.  Synonym: relieve.  "Lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"



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"Lightening" Quotes from Famous Books



... not ours," he remarked, in a calm, firm voice; "we shall get a fair reward if we succeed in saving it. I hope, if we stay by the ship, that we may get her off, at the top of the next flood, by lightening her a little. What say you? Will you stay by my lads and me, and do ...
— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston
... capable of taking on board; and that she might be made as light as possible for that purpose, he desired I would land eight or ten of her guns and carriages, with any other articles which I judged the ship could spare, for the time she might be absent, and which might answer the purpose of lightening the ship and ...
— An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island • John Hunter
... although the Government did not need the accumulating revenue and was actually embarrassed by its excess. The President had already made himself the spokesman of the popular demand for a substantial reduction of taxes. Such a combination of forces in favor of lightening the popular burden might seem to be constitutionally irresistible, but by adroit maneuvering the congressional supporters of protection managed to have the war rates generally maintained and, in some cases, even increased. The case is a typical example of the way ...
— The Cleveland Era - A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics, Volume 44 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Henry Jones Ford
... Broadley for their kindness in affording him access to their collections of Blandyana, including rarities (to quote an old title-page) "nowhere to be found but in the Closets of the Curious," greatly to the lightening of his labours and ...
— Trial of Mary Blandy • William Roughead
... scheme of reforms proposed by Sir George Clarke. To the most important features of the scheme, which were the provision of a course of practical science for all first-year students, a systematic bifurcation of courses, the lightening of the number of subjects in order to secure somewhat more thoroughness, and compulsory teaching of Indian history and polity, no serious objection could be raised, but the politicians on the ...
— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol


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