Lightens is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTENS 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 LIGHTENS

lighten11 lightened14 lightening15

Words that contain LIGHTENS

enlightens14

How to use LIGHTENS in a sentence

• In spite of his bulk he was not heavy in the saddle, for he kept in tune with the gait of the horse, with that sway of the body which lightens burdens.
• A permanent assignment of squads to these duties lightens the labor and decreases the time necessary for breaking camp.
• But, Betty, your confidence in Oliver is well sustained so far, and it lightens my heart.
• As he does so, the storm lightens, the wind drops and the cowherds and cowgirls regain their homes.
• They were not entirely black, but of that seemingly changeful hue so often met with in persons of African extraction, which deepens and lightens with every varying emotion.
• With age, this type changes, the nose becomes aquiline, and of moderate breadth, the upper lip becomes less prominent, the skin lightens.
• At times he has command over a magnificent number of invectives! As the minutes pass and the day lightens we smoke a fag every five minutes, every three minutes.
• Little by little the gloom lightens, however, and instead of the river bed the scene represents the green valley through which the Rhine is flowing.
• His face lightens, he smiles, and love comes into his eyes.
• If material anxiety envelops you in a dark cloud, spiritual radiance lightens your path.
• In humanity this eternal word becomes the Holy Spirit, the light which lightens every man coming into the world, but which shines in all its splendor in Jesus Christ.
• The genial influence of the season lightens alike the lofty hall and the lowly cottage.
• I have never doubted the good effects of anything that lightens up a clay soil and renders it warmer and more porous.
• The young couple were happy in their hard work, for they loved each other, and love lightens all care and labor.
• After breakfast, the women and children rub themselves over with the pounded red wood and a little grease, which lightens the darkness of the black skin.
• In the great storms of life we act like the captain of a ship who, under the stress of a hurricane, lightens the ship of its heaviest cargo.
• It lightens the burdens of care, it soothes the ruffled feelings, it exercises a refining influence upon the children, it calms the passions and elevates the soul.
• There is a celebrated ballad on tea-picking, in thirty stanzas, sung by a young woman who goes from home early in the day to work, and lightens her labors with song.
• When my weary soul finds rest Oft a beam of rapture brightens All the gloom of cloud, and lightens This oppression in my breast.
• Truly has the poet told, in this homely way, how LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR.
• Christ is the light which in conscience and reason lightens every man throughout the history of the race.

Similar words containing LIGHTEN without suffix s

lighten11 enlighten13 lightened14 lightener13 enlightens14 lighteners14 lightening15 enlightened16 enlightener15 lightenings16 unlightened16 enlighteners16 enlightening17 enlightenment19 unenlightened18 enlightenments20 unenlightening19 enlighteningly22

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