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Crossword-Solution: LIGHTEN 7 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Lighten v. i. To descend; to light.
Lighten v. i. To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or
like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.
Lighten v. i. To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to
brighten; to clear, as the sky.
Lighten v. t. To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to
lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
Lighten v. t. To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
Lighten v. t. To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash
out, like lightning.
Lighten v. t. To free from trouble and fill with joy.
Lighten v. t. 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.
Lighten v. t. To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate;
as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.
Lighten v. t. To cheer; to exhilarate.

We have 43 clues for the answer “LIGHTEN”

Clue Answers
make less dark 1 answer
Make less heavy 1 answer
Lift, as a mood 1 answer
___ the load (make things easier) 1 answer
Grow brighter 1 answer
Frost, at the salon 1 answer
Ease, as a load 1 answer
Ease the burden. 1 answer
Decrease, as a load 1 answer
Bleach, say 1 answer
Bleach, perhaps 1 answer
Reduce the load 1 answer
Make less serious 2 answers
defy gravity 5 answers
"Take a load off" 11 answers
aerify 12 answers
make less severe 14 answers
illume 17 answers
Dilute 18 answers
make beam 18 answers
Disen-cumber 22 answers
extenuate 22 answers
attenuate 23 answers
Leaven 25 answers
Jettison 27 answers
illumine 28 answers
Brighten 31 answers
Relieve 33 answers
Mollify 33 answers
MAKE comfortable 36 answers
Float __ 37 answers
Bleach 38 answers
Uplift 38 answers
Elucidate 43 answers
MAKE less dense 44 answers
Alleviate 44 answers
Allay 45 answers
Mitigate 50 answers
Reduce 72 answers
Thin __ 87 answers
Ease 90 answers
De-crease? 90 answers
Light 114 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LIGHTEN (5)

The grasshoppers and sparrows entreated him not to cut down the tree that sheltered them, but to spare it, and they would sing to him and lighten his labors.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Oak imagined a terrible discovery resulting from this afternoon’s work that might cast over Bathsheba’s life a shade which the interposition of many lapsing years might but indifferently lighten, and which nothing at all might altogether remove.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Lighten us, lord, and cleanse us from this curse! For now we all are cowed like mariners Who see their helmsman dumbstruck in the storm.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Yesterday afternoon I told her about some plans I had been devising while absent in Bermuda, to lighten her burdens.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
When we was three-quarters of a mile below we hoisted up our signal lantern; and about ten o’clock it come on to rain and blow and thunder and lighten like everything; so the king told us to both stay on watch till the weather got better; then him and the duke crawled into the wigwam and turned in for the night.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with LIGHTEN (3)

You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window.""Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it.""Twice.""Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.
J.R. Ward Lover Unbound
He is your Father, and His role is to protect you; He will comfort you and guide you. He will feed you; He will carry you when you are weak. He will seek you out when you go astray; He will help you in times of trouble. He will not let your enemies go unpunished; He will cherish you like a father cherishes his daughter. When you fall, He will pick you up; when you don’t understand, He will always understand. When you feel like life is weighing you down, He will lift you up. W…
Corallie Buchanan Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind, when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 15 times in crossword archives (1959–2023).