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lighten

English

  1. 🔊 become lighter
    “The room lightened up”
  2. 🔊 become more cheerful
    “after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit”
  3. 🔊 reduce the weight on
    “she lightened the load on the tired donkey”
  4. 🔊 make more cheerful
    “the conversation lightened me up a bit”
  5. 🔊 alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
    “relieve the pressure and the stress”
  6. 🔊 make more cheerful through the use of color
    “The paint will brighten the room”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 alijar to lighten
  2. 🔊 aliviar to lighten

Similar words

relieve lighten up brighten lighten up lighten up buoy up lighten up buoy up abate allay alleviate assuage attemper attenuate bank the fire be light beacon blunt break brighten brighten up chasten cheer up constrain