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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



... ordinary repair; the ease with which the whole may be handled, started, reversed, or set at any point of expansion—all these being recommendations to enlist the care and attention of the engineers in charge by lightening their duties and rendering ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various

... which bind you as a wife remain equally strong and heavy, whatever be the conduct of your husband; and galling as the chain may be, you must only endeavour for resignation to bear it, till the Almighty, by lightening it, pleases to crown your gentleness and efforts ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur

... human face; in fact they are men.' That these violent and humiliating contrasts are eternal and inevitable, is the last word of the dominant philosophy of society; and one of the reasons why Turgot's life is worth studying, is that he felt in so pre-eminent a degree the urgency of lightening the destiny of that livid, wild, hardly articulate, ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley

... forgotten herselfe, how without the feare of God, reuerence of her husband, and respect of her owne honesty, she had filthely giuen herselfe ouer to him which was called her Dareling. The good gentleman hearing this straung case, was astonned like one that had been stroken with a flashe of lightening, then drawing nere to the accuser, he aunswered. "Is it possible that suche wickednes can lye hidden in the breast of our Madame? I sweare vnto thee by God, that if any other had told it me besides you, ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter

... He did of old For the lightening of men's woes. His wonders never can be told, His goodness no man knows,— His Love, His Power, His Tenderness,— Nor shall do ...
— Bees in Amber - A Little Book Of Thoughtful Verse • John Oxenham


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