Lightens

Word LIGHTENS
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Definitions and meanings of "Lightens"

What do we mean by lightens?

To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.

To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.

To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to flash.

To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.

To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.

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The word "lightens" in example sentences

As it quiets, the skin lightens and the reflectivity is less noticeable. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Everybody was looking at me ... then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up. ❋ AP (2010)

"He can say whatever about me ... but there are so many women like me, in my situation, that I just feel when there is this laughter, if you are in that situation out there, it kind of lightens it." ❋ Unknown (2009)

then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It certainly lightens it where the lightning strikes! ❋ Unknown (2009)

What Vampire adds is a kind of knowing, self-referential jokiness that lightens the tension without dissipating it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It lightens our load so that we aren't canonized because of our martyrdom. ❋ Lorraine Roe (2010)

Dialogue is the yeast that lightens the bread; and should be paid for at double rate -- whereas by the word-system it counts the same as the dough ... ❋ Patricia Benesh (2010)

If I did go home, Idol Gives Back, being a part of that, it lightens the blow a little bit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Black hair ripples into red tresses, golden skin lightens to freckled and fair, life-sparked blue replaces empty jade green eyes. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

Its short lines are reminiscent of Plath, but it has a restraint that lightens the effect of the lineation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The traditional pull-down shades have been replaced by a passenger-controlled button at the base of each window that darkens or lightens the window. ❋ Peter Sanders (2011)

Not electrocuting-immigrants-funny, but apparently, the kind of hilarity that lightens things up around the office of the Texas governor when they need relief from executing prisoners. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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