Definition of Lighten

Lighten

To descend; to light.

To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.

To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.

To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.

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

To free from trouble and fill with joy.

To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.

To cheer; to exhilarate.

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Lighten Quotations

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
Martin Scorsese

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
Clara Zetkin

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
Patrick Stewart

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
Allen Klein

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
Alan Thicke

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Rosamund Pike

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
Philip Stanhope

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?
Dorothy Nolte

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Lighten Translations

lighten in German is erleichtern, erleuchten, erhellen
lighten in Italian is schiarire, agevolare
lighten in Latin is relaxo, relevo
lighten in Norwegian is lyse, opplyse, oppmuntre, lette
lighten in Spanish is clarear, desahogar, alumbrar

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