Lightened is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTENED in dictionary:

VERB:
• LIGHTEN, to reduce the weight of
• make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity
• make or become more cheerful or less serious
• make or become lighter or brighter
• enlighten spiritually
• flash with lightning

Words related to LIGHTENED

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How to use LIGHTENED in a sentence

• I could see that she lightened his troubled mind a little, for, having accepted her fate, she was resolute to make the best of it, I even heard her laugh.
• There were other old men, sick, crippled, idle, who must suffer pain, but whose pain could be lightened.
• Jennings returned home with a heart lightened by a consciousness of duty well performed.
• Their mutual relation had only lightened his darkness in part, while it had drawn over her the faint twilight of a Shadow like his own.
• For a moment the cloud was lightened when the poor victim saw a priest seated on a mule approach in the roadway.
• Then shade by shade it lightened, until through the transparent obscurity shone a dim light.
• Her spirits were not lightened by the developments of the next few days.
• Slowly the dark over the eastern hill lightened to a gray.
• This gush of rapture relieved and lightened their young and innocent hearts, and Margaret having withdrawn herself from his arms, they could now speak more freely.
• Real difficulties should be lightened, but some labor should be permitted to remain.
• This last and bitterest blow which has fallen upon Belgium is full of poignant tragedy, but the tragedy is lightened by the gallantry with which the city was defended.
• It is all of marble, white and coloured, with a massive wooden ceiling enriched and lightened by paint.
• The dark circles about her eyes had lightened a little.
• It always lightened her mind of its burdens to eat in a public place.
• His struggles, if not actually ended, had become so lightened as to leave his mind free to pursue the higher walks of his art in comparative peace.
• It can be thus easily understood that when it is lightened of any considerable weight its movement will be impetuous and sudden.
• It was that risk that lightened her heart which had been so heavy all day.
• Then, just before the sky lightened, someone stepped cautiously along a little path that led through rocks and bushes back into the hills.
• She felt that the old sweet intimacy, that had so lightened the burden of her solitude, was gone.
• And ever it lightened and thundered, as it had been wood.
• Conly was washed overboard, and that lightened her, so she went up again.
• Our wagon gave us the only trouble, for the load could not well be lightened, and it was an imperative necessity to cross it the same day.
• As we expected to make not less than forty miles a day on the way to the railroad, our wagon was lightened to the least possible weight.
• After I had been in the house a little while, I was summoned out again to receive the petition of certain poor women in the family-way to have their work lightened.
• Therefore this oppression at least would have to be lightened, before the social conscience could be at ease.
• We went back to our pulpits, spirits lightened, theology improved, and able to do better service for the cause of God than we could have done without that healthful shaking up.
• Among those who have lightened my labors, either by copies of letters penned by Douglas or by personal recollections, I would mention with particular gratitude the late Mrs.
• The shadows in the corner had lightened and darkened and lightened again, lifting at last to show a half-ruined, roofless room and a banyan tree outside an almost perfect archway.

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