Lighten
verb
To make or become less dark.
They used white paint to lighten the room.
Often appears as...
- lighten the room
- lighten your hair
verb
To decrease the weight of something.
I had to lighten my backpack because it was too heavy.
Often appears as...
- lighten the load
- lighten your backpack
verb
To make or become less serious or severe.
Her joke helped to lighten the mood.
Often appears as...
- lighten the mood
- lighten the atmosphere
verb
To make or become fairer or lighter in color.
She decided to lighten her hair for the summer.
Often appears as...
- lighten your hair
- lighten the color
verb
Decrease the force or intensity.
She hoped the rain would lighten up soon.
Often appears as...
- lighten the pressure
- lighten the force
verb
To make or become less dark.
They used white paint to lighten the room.
Often appears as...
- lighten the room
- lighten your hair
verb
To decrease the weight of something.
I had to lighten my backpack because it was too heavy.
Often appears as...
- lighten the load
- lighten your backpack
verb
To make or become less serious or severe.
Her joke helped to lighten the mood.
Often appears as...
- lighten the mood
- lighten the atmosphere
verb
To make or become fairer or lighter in color.
She decided to lighten her hair for the summer.
Often appears as...
- lighten your hair
- lighten the color
verb
Decrease the force or intensity.
She hoped the rain would lighten up soon.
Often appears as...
- lighten the pressure
- lighten the force
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Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Brightening
Lighten often implies a positive, uplifting change in emotion when removing darkness.
Fairy lights can really lighten a cozy winter evening.
Pro Tip 2/2Light Source
The term can suggest adding or introducing a light source, not just color changes.
We'll lighten this corner with a new lamp.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Brightening
Lighten often implies a positive, uplifting change in emotion when removing darkness.
Fairy lights can really lighten a cozy winter evening.
Pro Tip 2/2Light Source
The term can suggest adding or introducing a light source, not just color changes.
We'll lighten this corner with a new lamp.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Brightening
Lighten often implies a positive, uplifting change in emotion when removing darkness.
Fairy lights can really lighten a cozy winter evening.
Pro Tip 2/2Light Source
The term can suggest adding or introducing a light source, not just color changes.
We'll lighten this corner with a new lamp.
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Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
to the point of absurdity we're going to hand that off to the biomechanics to explain how it could get away with lightening the skeleton as much as it did it wasn't I don't think a flotation device I think it was just trying to reduce the amount of living tissue it had to support and still get by and it
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Caring for a Two Tonne...
her oxygenation they can get very complicated and an athletics they're very prone to option ation problems hypoxia not enough oxygen so we just keep on playing around with this drug just to lighten her levels and it just helps us to get her up as well because this is the thing she's a big girl so we
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David Carson: Design,...
not that they will sell -- that there is felt a need for people to lighten the color of their skin. This was either an old product with new packaging, or a brand-new package, and I just thought, Yikes! How's that still happening? I do a lot of workshops all over the world, really,
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How smart are dolphins?...
got a little bored. To lighten things up, one pretended to be Poseidon by placing a seaweed garland on his head and then throwing it into the ocean. Moments later, a dolphin surfaced with the seaweed crowning her head. Sure, this could have been a coincidence,
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The science of skin...
So they benefited from vitamin D, developed strong bones, and survived well enough to produce healthy offspring. Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened. As a result of our ancestor's adaptability,
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The Life of a Photograph...
look at this scene and I write in the book that this intensely developed utterly built world of Tokyo all of its weight was gathered in this view and lightened my favorite chapter in the book is just looking and it's in this
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Everest, Mars, and...
you said we're number one and on the landing for takeoff so obviously humor pays a big pot as well in it I think well I I had been saving up that phrase something who respond to maybe lighten the moment as we received the
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Beyond Race PIPE National...
people were not only toughening up they were lightening up as well our African ancestors would have had relatively dark-skinned Galatz of sunlight it's a very tropical place you need some way of protecting your skin
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Our story of rape and...
that couldn't do any less than lighten the soul. Wanting to take revenge is a very human emotion -- instinctual, even. And all I wanted to do for years was to hurt Tom back as deeply as he had hurt me.
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How 3D printing helped...
think about what would actually motivate me and keep course to being Delilah but lighten life athlete that I really really wanted to be I also wondered if it was time to
Video examples
Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
to the point of absurdity we're going to hand that off to the biomechanics to explain how it could get away with lightening the skeleton as much as it did it wasn't I don't think a flotation device I think it was just trying to reduce the amount of living tissue it had to support and still get by and it
Video examples
Caring for a Two Tonne...
her oxygenation they can get very complicated and an athletics they're very prone to option ation problems hypoxia not enough oxygen so we just keep on playing around with this drug just to lighten her levels and it just helps us to get her up as well because this is the thing she's a big girl so we
Video examples
David Carson: Design,...
not that they will sell -- that there is felt a need for people to lighten the color of their skin. This was either an old product with new packaging, or a brand-new package, and I just thought, Yikes! How's that still happening? I do a lot of workshops all over the world, really,
Video examples
How smart are dolphins?...
got a little bored. To lighten things up, one pretended to be Poseidon by placing a seaweed garland on his head and then throwing it into the ocean. Moments later, a dolphin surfaced with the seaweed crowning her head. Sure, this could have been a coincidence,
Video examples
The science of skin...
So they benefited from vitamin D, developed strong bones, and survived well enough to produce healthy offspring. Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened. As a result of our ancestor's adaptability,
Video examples
The Life of a Photograph...
look at this scene and I write in the book that this intensely developed utterly built world of Tokyo all of its weight was gathered in this view and lightened my favorite chapter in the book is just looking and it's in this
Video examples
Everest, Mars, and...
you said we're number one and on the landing for takeoff so obviously humor pays a big pot as well in it I think well I I had been saving up that phrase something who respond to maybe lighten the moment as we received the
Video examples
Beyond Race PIPE National...
people were not only toughening up they were lightening up as well our African ancestors would have had relatively dark-skinned Galatz of sunlight it's a very tropical place you need some way of protecting your skin
Video examples
Our story of rape and...
that couldn't do any less than lighten the soul. Wanting to take revenge is a very human emotion -- instinctual, even. And all I wanted to do for years was to hurt Tom back as deeply as he had hurt me.
Video examples
How 3D printing helped...
think about what would actually motivate me and keep course to being Delilah but lighten life athlete that I really really wanted to be I also wondered if it was time to
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Quote examples
Khoudia Diop
Senegalese Actress
Even though I was very young, it was traumatizing seeing someone try weird things on their skin all for the sake of being lighter. It's as common as relaxing your hair or maybe even brushing your teeth. I had friends not wanting to do it, but their moms gave them creams to help lighten their skin. That's how accessible it is.
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Barack Obama
American President
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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RJ Cyler
American Actor
In life, my childish behavior is the good kind, not to where it's annoying and, 'Wow, someone sit him down and give him a bottle, give him a Pamper.' It's like, 'This situation is very heavy, but RJ is here, so he'll lighten things up a little.
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Isabelle Adjani
French Actress
People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.
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Martin Scorsese
American Director
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
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Todd Phillips
American Director
The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.
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Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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Stephen J. Cannell
American Producer
A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
Quote examples
Khoudia Diop
Senegalese Actress
Even though I was very young, it was traumatizing seeing someone try weird things on their skin all for the sake of being lighter. It's as common as relaxing your hair or maybe even brushing your teeth. I had friends not wanting to do it, but their moms gave them creams to help lighten their skin. That's how accessible it is.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
Quote examples
RJ Cyler
American Actor
In life, my childish behavior is the good kind, not to where it's annoying and, 'Wow, someone sit him down and give him a bottle, give him a Pamper.' It's like, 'This situation is very heavy, but RJ is here, so he'll lighten things up a little.
Quote examples
Isabelle Adjani
French Actress
People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.
Quote examples
Martin Scorsese
American Director
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
Quote examples
Todd Phillips
American Director
The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.
Quote examples
Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
Quote examples
Charles Dickens
English Novelist
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Quote examples
Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Quote examples
Stephen J. Cannell
American Producer
A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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