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Definition: LIGHTENED |
LIGHTENEDImperative & past participle1. Of Lighten |
Date "LIGHTENED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Crosswords: LIGHTENED |
| English words defined with "LIGHTENED": lighten, lighten up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LIGHTENED": Resurrection. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | View in the engine room, probably looking aft, showing Parsons turbines and associated fittings. Note ladder, lightened structural members, railings and "non-skid" treads on the working platform. Photographed while Flusser was under construction at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1909.Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Stuart Mill | It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. |
William Wordsworth | That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The time of year lightened the evil to him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The lightened truck bounced noisily along. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | The practice of plea-bargaining, which was introduced in January 2000, had not yet effectively lightened the caseload for prosecutors. (references) |
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| "LIGHTENED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 53.57% of the time. "LIGHTENED" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 53.57% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 42.86% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.57% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LIGHTENED": sun-lightened. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lightened flywheel | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LIGHTENED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | مخفف (palliated, relaxed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 照亮 (illuminate, illuminated, illuminating, lighten). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | kevetä (be lightened, be relieved, become lighter). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | erleichterte (assuaged, eased, facilitated, relieved). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | felragyogott a szeme (his eyes lightened up). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 비추는 (mirrored). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | jeant ny s'gilley, eddrymit (unburdened). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightenedlay облегчать облегченный (relieved, unburdened). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | SfodrwV de ceimazomenwn hmwn th exhV ekbolhn epoiounto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Valide autem nobis tempestate iactatis sequenti die iactum fecerunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And for we weren throwun with strong tempest, in the dai suynge thei maden casting out. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The nexte daye when we were tossed wt an exceadynge tempest they lyghtened ye ship |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship; |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 18 |
| Albanian | Por mbasi furtuna na vuri përpara me forcë, të nesërmen filluan ta hedhim në det ngarkesën. |
| Cebuano | Ug sanglit gilambalamba man kami pag-ayo sa bagyo, sa pagkasunod nga adlaw ilang gisugdan ang pagpanglabog sa mga karga ngadto sa dagat. |
| Croatian | Buduæi da nas je oluja silovito udarala, sutradan se riješiše tovara, |
| Danish | Og da vi måtte kæmpe hårdt med Stormen, begyndte de næste Dag at kaste over Bord. |
| Dutch | En alzo wij van het onweder geweldiglijk geslingerd werden, deden zij den volgende dag een uitworp; |
| Finnish | Mutta kun rajuilma ankarasti ahdisti meitä, heittivät he seuraavana päivänä lastia mereen, |
| French | Comme nous étions violemment battus par la tempête, le lendemain on jeta la cargaison à la mer, |
| German | Und da wir großes Ungewitter erlitten, taten sie des nächsten Tages einen Auswurf. |
| Haitian Creole | Gwo van an t'ap bat nou pi rèd. Nan denmen, nou te blije jete chay yo nan dlo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Angin terus mengamuk, sehingga keesokan harinya muatan kapal mulai dibuang ke dalam laut. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab kami sangat terlambung-lambung oleh ribut, maka pada keesokan harinya mereka itu pun membuangkan muatan ke laut, |
| Italian | Sbattuti violentemente dalla tempesta, il giorno seguente cominciarono a gettare a mare il carico; |
| Maori | A, no ka tino akina matou e te tupuhi, i te aonga ake ka akiritia nga utanga; |
| Norwegian | Da vi nu led meget ondt av været, kastet de næste dag ladningen overbord, |
| Portuguese | Como fôssemos violentamente açoitados pela tempestade, no dia seguinte começaram a alijar a carga ao mar. |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq eram bqtuyi foarte tare de furtunq, a doua zi au knceput sq arunce kn mare kncqrcqtura din corabie, |
| Shuar | Tura kashin tsawarmatai nasesha Chíchimisha Tímiatrusan kakaram aa asamtai kanunmayan Káarak irunmia nuna nayaantsanam ajapawarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Al día siguiente, mientras éramos sacudidos por una furiosa tempestad, comenzaron a aligerar la carga; |
| Swahili | Dhoruba iliendelea kuvuma na kesho yake wakaanza kutupa nje shehena ya meli. |
| Swedish | Och eftersom vi alltjämt hårt ansattes av stormen, vräkte de dagen därefter en del av lasten över bord. |
| Uma | Kamepulo-na topobago kapal ntepu'u mpetadi kenia kapal hi rala tahi', bona monangko' kapal, apa' uma ria pento'oa uda mpongolu' mporumpa' -kai. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LIGHTENED": enlightened, unenlightened. (additional references) | |
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"LIGHTENED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hightened, Leitende. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LIGHTENED" (pronounced lī"tund) |
| 6 | l ī" t u n d | enlightened, unenlightened. |
| 5 | -ī" t u n d | brightened, frightened, heightened, tightened. |
| 4 | -t u n d | buttoned, cottoned, destined, disheartened, fattened, flattened, heartened, predestined, shortened, straightened, sweetened, threatened, unbuttoned. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, strengthened, summoned, thickened, thousand, toughened, unburdened, undetermined, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: deleting. | |
-2 letters: deleing, delight, gentile, gentled, glinted, heeding, heeling, lighted, lighten, neighed, theelin, tingled. | |
-3 letters: dentil, dingle, elegit, endite, engild, gentil, gentle, heiled, hented, hilted, hinged, hinted, legend, length, nidget, nighed, teeing, theine, tinged, tingle. | |
-4 letters: deign, diene, dight, dinge, edile, eight, elide, elint, elite, gelid, genet, genie, glede, gleed, gleet, glide, glint, hedge. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-t" | |
+2 letters: benightedly, enlightened. | |
+4 letters: candlelighted, candlelighter, delightedness, nearsightedly, technologized, unenlightened. | |
+5 letters: candlelighters, delightfulness, heartrendingly. | |
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