What is another word for lightens?

Pronunciation: [lˈa͡ɪtənz] (IPA)

Lightens is a verb which means to make something less heavy or to make it brighter. The word lightens can also mean to ease a burden or to alleviate stress or tension. Synonyms for lightens include reducing, alleviating, mitigating, easing, lessening, brightening, uplifting, refreshing, cheering, and buoying. Some common phrases that can be used instead of lightens includes to lift one's spirits, to ease one's burdens, to take the edge off, and to make things easier. Lightening can also mean making something less serious or severe, and some synonyms for this usage include softening, tempering, and mitigating.

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Usage examples for Lightens

It is what happens to most men that darkens or lightens their life; but the interior life of good men itself lightens all that happens to them.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
They toss hither and thither; they break and then come together again; it thunders and lightens, rains and hails, till they have entirely disburdened themselves.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
Careful, systematic planning in advance lightens immeasurably the burden of housekeeping, and, many a time, makes the actual work nothing but fun.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed

Famous quotes with Lightens

  • Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
    James A. Baldwin
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
    Charles Dickens
  • Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
    Grenville Kleiser
  • Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
    James Baldwin
  • Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
    Sri Madhava

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