lessening
Meaning of lessening
verb, gerund or present participle
- make or become less; diminish.
the years have lessened the gap in age between us
the warmth of the afternoon lessened
Information about lessening
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of lessening
less-en-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- lessening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
lessening synonyms
Meaning decrease:
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning reduce (something, especially something undesirable) to the smallest possible amount or degree:
Meaning diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry):
Meaning make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense:
Meaning make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe:
Meaning reduce the force, effect, or value of:
Meaning make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause:
Meaning make (something unpleasant or intense) less serious or severe:
Meaning make or become dull or less intense:
Meaning make (a noise or sensation) less strong or intense:
Meaning weaken or reduce the force of (something):
Meaning make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent:
Meaning make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful:
Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:
Meaning make less strong or intense:
Meaning make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected:
Meaning make or become soft or softer:
Meaning make (something) weaker in force, content, or value by modification or the addition of other elements:
Meaning make or become less tense or anxious:
Meaning reduce the severity of (something):
Meaning act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something):
Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:
Meaning domesticate (an animal):
Meaning (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land):
Meaning become or make less wide:
Meaning less high in position:
Meaning reduce (a product or service) in price:
Meaning reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on:
Meaning a plum preserved by drying and having a black, wrinkled appearance:
Meaning shorten the duration or extent of:
Meaning cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning become less intense, violent, or severe:
Meaning (of something unpleasant or severe) become less intense or widespread:
Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:
Meaning make or become lower, weaker, or less:
Meaning move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control:
Meaning diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning decrease in size, number, or range:
Meaning (of an emotion or quality) gradually decrease:
Meaning (of a state or feeling) decrease in vigour or extent; become weaker:
Meaning mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way:
Meaning make or become slack:
Meaning make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity:
Meaning (of a quality, feeling, or possibility) gradually diminish:
Meaning become less severe or intense:
Meaning diminish:
Meaning stop doing something; cease or abstain:
Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:
Meaning sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply:
Meaning fall or drop straight down at high speed:
Meaning make or become quiet and calm:
Meaning make or become silent, calm, or still:
Meaning (of an aircraft) make a nosedive:
Meaning treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect:
Meaning harm the good reputation of:
Meaning reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of:
Meaning dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel less important or proud:
lessening antonyms
Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:
Meaning make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope:
Meaning (of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically:
Meaning increase the power, status, or wealth of:
Translation of lessening
- Spanish: reducción, disminución, merma, debilitamiento, mengua, abatimiento, decaimiento, minoración, aminoración
- Italian: abbattimento, diminuzione, riduzione
- French: réduction
- German: Abnahme, Verringerung
- Portuguese: abatimento
Words that rhyme with lessening
Chesaning, Harmaning, airplaning, aquaplaning, baning, beaning, begroaning, bemeaning, bemoaning, buccaning, caning, caravaning, chairmaning, chalaning, challaning, chicaning, cleaning, companing, costeaning, craning, deaning, demeaning, deplaning, eaning, emplaning, enplaning, foremeaning, gleaning, graddaning, groaning, housecleaning, hydroplaning, leaning, loaning, meaning, misdemeaning, moaning, organing, orphaning, overcleaning, paning, peaning, physicianing, planing, postweaning, precleaning, preweaning, profaning, recaning, recleaning
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