All lighten synonyms
lightΒ·en
L l verb lighten
- illuminate β to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
- brighten β If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- light up β something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- mitigate β to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- dilute β to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- facilitate β to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- ease β freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
- relieve β to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- lessen β to become less.
- alleviate β If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
- mollify β to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- ameliorate β If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way.
- cut down β If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- shine β to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- irradiate β to shed rays of light upon; illuminate.
- light β a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- flash β a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- illume β to illuminate.
- gleam β a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- allay β If you allay someone's fears or doubts, you stop them feeling afraid or doubtful.
- levitate β to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity.
- assuage β If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
- comfort β If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
- upraise β to raise up; lift or elevate.
- take β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- unburden β to free from a burden.
- thin β having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- jettison β to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- change β If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
- unload β to take the load from; remove the cargo or freight from: to unload a truck; to unload a cart.
- shift β to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- attenuate β To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
- remove β to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
- disburden β to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
- disencumber β to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- buoy β A buoy is a floating object that is used to show ships and boats where they can go and to warn them of danger.
- revive β to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
- hearten β to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- cheer β When people cheer, they shout loudly to show their approval or to encourage someone who is doing something such as taking part in a game.
- lift β to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- gladden β to make glad.
- load β anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
adjective lighten
- dumper β to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- out with it β a command to make something known immediately, without missing any details
- get off one's chest β Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
- unbosom β to disclose (a confidence, secret, etc.).
- shaker β a person or thing that shakes.