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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
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my headache.
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Due to a massive campaign for polio drops the incidence of the disease has considerably
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When I learned my father had gambled away my college savings, there was nothing he could say to
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my anger.
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Too fast, he felt the buffers' effect on his powers
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, and magic exploded through him.
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A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and
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congestion.
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Don't you know how it would
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your sentence.
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I will not
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it.
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No difference, however, of opinion as to his judgment of 'Pauline' can
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our appreciation of Mr.
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The long British column turned southeastward toward Sandy Hook, so as to
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the menace from Gates.
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Schwartz gradually
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ed his dolorous plaints under the stern authority of Maclay's exhortations.
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