Definition of lighten

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Lighten (v. t.) To free from trouble and fill with joy.

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Unseel :: Unseel (v. t.) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten..
Enlighten :: Enlighten (v. t.) To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding..
Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
Illuminate :: Illuminate (a.) Enlightened.
Luminous :: Luminous (a.) Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind..
Illighten :: Illighten (v. t.) To enlighten.
Reilluminate :: Reilluminate (v. t.) To enlighten again; to reillumine.
Analogy :: Analogy (n.) A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden..
Enlightenment :: Enlightenment (n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed..
Wise :: Wise (v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
Fulgurant :: Fulgurant (a.) Lightening.
Lighten :: Lighten (v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash..
Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..
Inlighten :: Inlighten (v. t.) See Enlighten.
Legge :: Legge (v. t.) To lighten; to allay.
Lightened :: Lightened (imp. & p. p.) of Lighte.
Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To free from trouble and fill with joy.
Lamp :: Lamp (n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp..
Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning..
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