Antonym: darken, dim, shade. Similar words: enlighten, lightening, enlightened, enlightenment, blighted, delighted, tighten, brighten. Meaning: ['laɪtn] v. 1. make more cheerful 2. reduce the weight on; make lighter 3. become more cheerful 4. make lighter or brighter 5. become brighter 6. become lighter 7. alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive.
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31. Just trying to lighten the mood a bit.
32. The sky was beginning to lighten.
33. Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise to them.
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34. Wild knows how to lighten up and he does it with the digital mastery and temperament he has exhibited for many decades.
35. Most probably they were thrown into the sea to lighten the load when the ship found itself in difficulties.
36. One way or another, though, we must have the scope to lighten our self-imposed burden of debt.
37. I trust that this review has helped at least somewhat to lighten that load.
38. She advises those still aghast at the Pia Zadora fiasco to lighten up.
39. It has no jokes, no digressions, nothing to lighten, except occasional quotations of poets like Tennyson.
40. He said school districts should reduce teacher paperwork, hire more clerical help and lighten teaching loads to reduce stress.
41. School administrators are looking at ways to lighten teachers' workloads.
42. These unexceptionable points, however, are merely the leaven that produce the gas to lighten the dough.
43. High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days.
44. Don't paint the red apple as seen(Sentencedict.com), brighten and lighten its mood or subdue and cool its expression.
45. He would lighten up and have some fun-he would do something different, something new.
46. Meredith didn't respond to his attempt to lighten the conversation but merely sat staring at him thoughtfully.
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48. The weather segments also give the anchors a chance to banter with the weather people and lighten the proceedings.
49. On March 19 it passed a regulatory reform bill, which is intended to lighten the weight of government on small businesses.
50. Maybe we should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara's workload.
51. Children often bring their own little containers, trying to lighten some of their family's burden.
52. To lighten it, a water tank had to be emptied.
53. With Clinique, he believes that people today want to lighten up and be, well, happy.
54. The little mountains of earth scattered around didn't lighten the atmosphere, either.
55. She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything, to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone.
56. I'm sure you could lighten that suitcase a little if you only packed what you need.
57. As dawn began to lighten the sky they topped the rise of another mist-shrouded valley and began to descend the other side.
58. Only in the Scherzo and in certain passages in the Finale do they begin to lighten the texture sufficiently.
59. As weather conditions got worse, Watts and Peters abandoned their photographic equipment in order to lighten the load.
60. As the road lengthened and the sky began to lighten overhead, they were able to see their surroundings more clearly.
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