lessening

Speech parts

1. lessening - Noun

2. lessening - Verb

Meaning

of Lessen

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

decrease dec fall minify ebbing reduce decline reduction relief limiting contraction sinking lowering descending temper
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Antonyms

darwinism appendix development addition growth increase
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Hypernyms

change modification alteration

Hyponyms

sinking shrinking attrition casualty shrinkage dwindling

Phrases with the word

lessening faults

Anagrams

Esslingen

Examples

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these. James Mill

In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares. Gerald Massey

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension. Jack Vance

He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. H. P. Lovecraft

We lessen our wants by lessening our desires. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

lessenable lessened lessener lessening faults Lesseps Lessepsian