lighten

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.

   “to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets”

2. fiil To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
3. fiil To flash lightning, to give off lightning.

   “Enter the Conjurer; it lightens and thunders […]”

4. fiil To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.

   “[…] behold his eye, As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forth Controlling majesty:”

5. fiil To illuminate with knowledge.

   “O Light which mak’st the Light, which makes the Day, Which setst the Eye without and Mind within, Lighten my spirit with one cleare heavenly ray, Which now to view it selfe doth first begin.”

6. fiil To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.

   “Sorrow can be lightened by being openly brought out.”

7. fiil To make light or lighter in weight.
8. fiil To make less serious or more cheerful.

   “They looked unto him, were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

9. fiil To become light or lighter in weight.
10. fiil To become less serious or more cheerful.
11. fiil To descend; to light.

    “Book of Common Prayer O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.”