lighten

lighten is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To descend; to light. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To descend; to light.
2. intransitive verb. To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.
3. intransitive verb. To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.
4. transitive verb. To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
5. transitive verb. To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
6. transitive verb. To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
7. transitive verb. To free from trouble and fill with joy.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. transitive verb. To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.
10. transitive verb. To cheer; to exhilarate.
11. verb. alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive

    "relieve the pressure and the stress"

    "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"

    Synonyms: relieve

12. verb. become lighter

    "The room lightened up"

13. verb. make lighter or brighter

    "The paint will brighten the room"

    Synonyms: brighten

14. verb. become more cheerful

    "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit"

15. verb. reduce the weight on; make lighter

    "she lightened the load on the tired donkey"

16. verb. make more cheerful

    "the conversation lightened me up a bit"

Synonyms

relieve, brighten

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lighten:

enlight

Common word forms

lightens, lightened, lightener, lightening

Words from these letters

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