lightened

Meaning

of Lighten

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny they have only shifted it to another shoulder. George Bernard Shaw

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. Indira Gandhi

There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, " My God, my God!" William Mountford

I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm. Lee Kuan Yew

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill

By annihilating the wicked I lightened the great weight on the globe. I delivered the country by establishing Swarajya and by saving religion. I betook myself to shake off the great exhaustion which had come upon me. I was asleep, why then, did you my darlings awaken me? Vinayak Damodar Savarkar