Sentence example with the word 'lessen'

lessen

abate, benumb, cut, detract, erode, lenify, palliate, roll back, sober down, temper, withdraw

Definition v. decrease in size

Last update: February 17, 2016


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The aspirin helped to lessen my headache.   [Please select]

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Due to a massive campaign for polio drops the incidence of the disease has considerably lessened.   [Please select]

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When I learned my father had gambled away my college savings, there was nothing he could say to lessen my anger.   [Please select]

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Too fast, he felt the buffers' effect on his powers lessen, and magic exploded through him.   [Please select]

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A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen congestion.   [Please select]

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Don't you know how it would lessen your sentence.   [Please select]

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I will not lessen it.   [Please select]

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No difference, however, of opinion as to his judgment of 'Pauline' can lessen our appreciation of Mr.   [Please select]

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The long British column turned southeastward toward Sandy Hook, so as to lessen the menace from Gates.   [Please select]

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Schwartz gradually lessened his dolorous plaints under the stern authority of Maclay's exhortations.   [Please select]

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