to lessen

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. Joseph Priestley

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. Birch Bayh

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. Henry Morton Stanley

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. Helen Hunt Jackson

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. Josiah Warren

If you share a man's wealth, try to lessen his misfortune. Chinese Proverb

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