What are the antonyms for LIGHTEN?
- keep, irritate, injure, provoke, exacerbate, yellow, increase, dim, hinder, blacken, embitter, dispirit, dishearten, incite, intensify, plant, dull, darken, magnify, block, trouble, aggravate, hurt, fill, upset, weigh down, discourage, dissuade, expand, hold, worry, burden, remain, worsen, bring down, impede, stay, raise, stir, add, obstruct, enhance, augment, strengthen, fix, grow, heighten, depress.
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Synonyms for LIGHTEN
- empty,
- clear the way,
- facilitate,
- peroxides,
- offload,
- trim,
- break bulk,
- delight,
- speeded up,
- compose,
- taper off,
- chill,
- beguile,
- give insight,
- grow pale,
- mitigate,
- encourage,
- anesthetizes,
- soft pedal,
- become tender,
- take the sting out,
- make pale,
- slack up,
- make visible,
- decrease,
- petering out,
- comfort,
- straighten out,
- cheer,
- squared,
- Whited,
- grizzled,
- buoy up,
- straightened out,
- turn pale,
- pour out,
- be/feel/look at home,
- concentrate,
- stick for,
- Voided,
- pour oil on,
- offloading,
- let up on,
- unburden,
- befriend,
- Gloze,
- uplights,
- rebating,
- Untighten,
- spiff up,
- change,
- open the door,
- off-load,
- make light of,
- ease,
- tarnish,
- blanch,
- shear,
- buff up,
- dulls,
- bail out,
- bleed,
- off-loading,
- enthrall,
- subsidize,
- make less,
- let hair down,
- shine,
- prettifies,
- in flames,
- compress,
- go with,
- Unlade,
- help,
- heat up,
- play up to,
- became smaller,
- run low,
- unblock,
- setting off,
- bleach,
- mollify,
- grizzles,
- facilitates,
- wear down,
- divert,
- toned up,
- lighten,
- tapers,
- straightening out,
- grows less,
- bob,
- levitate,
- wind down,
- minimize,
- highlighting,
- Subsidizing,
- chalk,
- Downs,
- tail away,
- brighten,
- prettifying,
- stick up for,
- smooth down,
- de-escalate,
- buoy,
- disburden,
- anesthetizing,
- pale,
- lay bare,
- offloaded,
- unburdening,
- shed light on,
- loosen up,
- decolorizing,
- Helped,
- serve,
- dies down,
- deepen,
- pour it on,
- dry up,
- unburdened,
- sated,
- CHALKS,
- shorten,
- curtail,
- wear away,
- clip,
- pacifies,
- upgrade,
- palliate,
- erode,
- shave,
- roll back,
- unchains,
- deflate,
- enliven,
- balmed,
- shrink,
- go to bat for,
- extenuate,
- deescalated,
- unbosom,
- wears away,
- compose yourself,
- decolorize,
- soft-pedal,
- peroxide,
- abet,
- trim down,
- slacking off,
- decolorized,
- satisfy,
- step up,
- cut back,
- wash out,
- decrement,
- uplight,
- frosted,
- diminish,
- winding down,
- downed,
- floodlighted,
- calm,
- furnish with light,
- eradicate,
- making visible,
- dying down,
- peroxiding,
- lessening,
- whiting,
- achromatize,
- pare,
- entertain,
- inspire,
- abridge,
- make lighter,
- refresh,
- heated up,
- be friends,
- floodlit,
- floodlight,
- turn,
- truncate,
- relax,
- assuage,
- unclogging,
- silvers,
- downgrade,
- illume,
- unclogged,
- off-loads,
- made easier,
- condense,
- heats up,
- dumper,
- elate,
- slackens,
- placate,
- die down,
- take the edge off,
- cull,
- promotes,
- lose,
- disembarrass,
- shake off,
- slowed down,
- off-loaded,
- shaker,
- get yourself together,
- aid,
- alleviate,
- allay,
- square,
- stimulate,
- speeding up,
- floodlights,
- compact,
- buffs up,
- redden,
- settle,
- Waned,
- abate,
- shakes off,
- made light of,
- pepsinate,
- drying up,
- attenuate,
- charm,
- Dulling,
- taper,
- lose edge,
- Minified,
- slack off,
- dried up,
- thin,
- tenderize,
- throw out,
- favor,
- run,
- rebated,
- unchain,
- Whites,
- take a load off,
- attended to,
- floodlighting,
- contract,
- fade,
- upraise,
- tell all,
- unload,
- anesthetize,
- reduce,
- set off,
- prettify,
- promote,
- Chalking,
- pacify,
- highlights,
- switch on,
- halve,
- improve,
- wearing away,
- apologize for,
- irradiate,
- patch things up,
- cut down,
- drain,
- out with it,
- leaven,
- grizzle,
- take the bite out,
- abbreviate,
- prettified,
- lighten up,
- washing out,
- console,
- deplete,
- ameliorate,
- makes nice,
- soften,
- hearten,
- minify,
- gleam,
- peter,
- grizzling,
- light up,
- attend to,
- unclog,
- break,
- tenderizing,
- peter out,
- lit up,
- Lights,
- anesthetized,
- become smaller,
- Chalked,
- cool off,
- gladden,
- initiate,
- highlighted,
- opened the door,
- lend a hand,
- put off,
- shrivel,
- calm down,
- spiffed up,
- unchained,
- show itself,
- become light,
- burn off,
- dwindle,
- run interference for,
- take load off one's mind,
- washes out,
- get off chest,
- cool down,
- tenderizes,
- get off one's chest,
- mitigated,
- etiolate,
- open doors for,
- died down,
- flash,
- distract,
- tone up,
- lower,
- tenderized,
- remove,
- Intensate,
- unburdens,
- dawn,
- shift,
- downing,
- sustain,
- Soothed,
- decolored,
- punch up,
- ran low,
- Glozing,
- narrow down,
- lift,
- tapers off,
- grow less,
- benefact,
- peroxided,
- cool out,
- deescalate,
- Silvered,
- take,
- lighted up,
- lessen,
- whiten,
- cooling off,
- weed,
- sped up,
- take sting out,
- switching on,
- untroubling,
- tailing off,
- light,
- washed out,
- assist,
- illuminate,
- grow sunny,
- illuminating,
- free,
- untrouble,
- switched on,
- jettison,
- blench,
- speed up,
- disencumber,
- soothing,
- leavening,
- make bright,
- perk up,
- soothe,
- revive,
- mellow,
- dilute,
- hit with a light,
- quiet,
- make easier,
- take load off one's chest,
- offloads,
- gray,
- make nice,
- top-slice,
- pour on,
- slow down,
- meliorate,
- relaxes,
- deescalating,
- nip,
- please,
- amend,
- moderate,
- relieve,
- clear,
- Minifying,
- crop,
- easer,
- amuse,
- quench,
- prune,
- decolor,
- Silvering,
- tail off,
- weaken.
Usage Examples for LIGHTEN
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So in your case, my daughters, they who should Have ta'en this burden on them, bide at home Like maidens, while ye take their place, and lighten My miseries by your toil. - "The Seven Plays in English Verse" by Sophocles
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He was sorry for the terrified girl, and in his wish to lighten her woes as far as he could, he said, gravely: " You called him terrible, and he can be more terrible than any man living. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers" by Georg Ebers
