Lessen

Definitions: Lessen

Lessen

Verb

1. Decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper".

2. Make smaller; "He decreased his staff".

3. Wear off or die down; "The pain subsided".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lessen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Lessen

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Improvement

Palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil.

Moderation

Moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken; lessen; (decrease); check palliate.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Crosswords: Lessen

Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Change Management Through Communications -- Lessen Anxiety, Then Improve Innovation And Corporate Performance [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• De architectonische ruimte : vijftien lessen over de dispositie van het menselijk verblijf (reference)

• How to Lessen Misunderstanding (reference)

• Lessen in levenskunst : de praktijk van het positief denken en de kunst van het genieten (reference)

• Lessen In Waanzin (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Lessen (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To which let me add, that he who appropriates land to himself by his labour, does not lessen, but increase the common stock of mankind: for the provisions serving to the support of human life, produced by one acre of inclosed and cultivated land, are (to speak much within compass) ten times more than those which are yielded by an acre of land of an equal richness lying waste in common. (Second Treatise of Government)

By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government. (reference)

The above Article shall be interpreted in accordance with the following principle: In no case shall any Member be asked or required, as a result of the adoption of any recommendation or draft convention by the Conference, to lessen the protection afforded by its existing legislation to the workers concerned. (reference)

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He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his repugnance.

The one who was going before was endeavouring to increase the distance, the one who came behind to lessen it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Dietary fiber may lessen IBS symptoms in many cases. (references)

Chloroquine should be taken on a full stomach to lessen nausea. (references)

Some people find this helps to lessen their fatigue and raise their spirits. (references)

Business

To lessen its dependence on oil revenues, the Saudi Government has taken a number of steps to diversify the economy and allowing the private sector to assume a leading role in the economy. (references)

Notwithstanding the fact that a younger fleet will increase the reliability of components, which would seem lessen the need for maintenance and repairs, the higher frequency of periodic compulsory motor vehicle inspections and stricter pollution control regulations are likely to spur sales in Italy of spare parts, components and accessories. (references)

China's rural economy has suffered from sluggish domestic sales, and plummeting prices for at least three years now. For the first time since agricultural reform in the late 1970's, farmer's real income failed to grow. In an attempt to lessen the impact of the crisis, and to maintain the growth of the agricultural sector in the long run while maintaining China's socio-economic development and stability, the Second Session of the Ninth Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) in March 1999 made the decision of giving first priority to agriculture in China's national economic development in the 21century. (references)

Children

Iceland

In an effort to improve the rate of prosecution of child sexual abuse and lessen the trauma to the child, the Government established the Children's Assessment Center in 1998. The objective of the center is to create a safe and secure environment where child victims feel more comfortable talking about what happened to them and are not subjected to multiple interviews. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bulgaria

The Council of Europe has criticized the concentration of frequency allocation in a non-technical body, and concern exists that this measure will lessen state radio and television independence in covering government policies and programs. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

Nigeria's dependence on crude oil is expected to lessen somewhat as the natural gas industry develops. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

A presidential decree signed in September 2000 sought to lessen executive branch control of the judiciary by moving responsibility for the courts' administrative support from the Justice Ministry to the Supreme Court; however, the financial change has had no apparent effect on the court's lack of independence. (references)

Cuba

Human Rights Watch reported that in 1999 the Government revised the Penal Code to prohibit the use of corporal punishment on prisoners and the use of any means to humiliate prisoners or to lessen their dignity; however, the revised code failed to establish penalties for committing such acts, and they continued to occur in practice. (references)

Travel

Ghana

There are, however, tax incentives which can significantly lessen the effective tax burden. (references)

Women

Uganda

The revised law would make the bride price a nonrefundable gift to the parents of the bride and was expected to lessen domestic violence when either party seeks divorce. (references)

Andorra

Women did not earn equal pay for equal work; observers estimate that women earn 25 percent less than men for comparable work, although this gap continued to lessen slowly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "lessen": lessen an evil. Additional references.

Beginning with "lessen": lessen-stress.

Afrikaan

verminder (abate, abridge, decrease, diminish, drop, fall). (various references)

Albanian

zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, rebate, reduce, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), zvogëlohet (diminish, dwindle), pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), pakësohem (decrease, diminish, drop off, dwindle, ease off, ease up, fall off, melt, peter out, recede, slip, wane, weaken, worsen), minimizoj (downplay, minify, minimize, play down, underplay). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏قلل من شأن كذا, ‏قلل (decrease, diminish, make less, minify, minimize, reduce, slim), ‏صغر (belittle, dwarf, hoot, shrink, smallness), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смалявам (belittle, diminish, minify, shrink), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), подценявам (belittle, cheapen, depreciate, derogate, misjudge, underprise, underrate, understate, undervalue). (various references)

Chinese 

变小 (lessened, lessening). (various references)

Czech

zmenšit (abate, deplete, diminish, reduce, scale down, weaken, whittle away), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away). (various references)

Danish

ved anvendelse af hoetilberedningsmaskiner formindskes arbejdsbehovet (hay making machines lessen labour requirements), begraense afdrift (to lessen drift). (various references)

Dutch

verminderen (abate, abridge, attenuate, decline, decrease, decrement, die away, diminish, drop, fall, reduce, to die away, to fade, wane), inkorten (abate, abbreviate, abridge, curtail, decrease, docking, shorten). (various references)

Esperanto

malpliigi (abate, abridge, decrease). (various references)

Farsi 

کمترکردن , کمترشدن , کاهش دادن , کاستن (Abate, Decline, Decrease, Detract, Discount, Drawoff, Lighten, Pare, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), تقلیل یافتن (Diminish), تقلیل دادن (Attenuate, Cutback, Cutdown, Scrimp, Weaken), تخفیف یافتن (Scant). (various references)

Finnish

laimentaa (dilute, weaken), vähetä (decrease, diminish, grow less), vähentää (abate, attenuate, curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, detract from, diminish, reduce, subtract, take from, take off), pienentää (chop, cut down, cut up, diminish, lower, make smaller, reduce, take in). (various references)

French

diminuer (let up), amoindrir. (various references)

German

vermindern (abate, attenuate, decrease, derogate, diminish, ease, reduce, slacken, to derogate, to diminish, weaken). (various references)

Greek 

μειώνω (abate, abridge, bring down to, cut back on, decrease, deescalate, deplete, derogate from, detract, diminish, reduce, understate), ελαττώνω (abate, attenuate, decrease, diminish, minimize, reduce). (various references)

Hebrew 

למעט (decrease, exclude, excluding, exclusive of, reduce, slight, with the exeption of, without), לקטון (be reduced, be small, decrease, diminish), לפחת (decrease, diminish, reduce), לפחות (at least, be reduced, become less, decrease, diminish, leastways, reduce), לחסר (cause loss, decrease, deduct, miss someone, reduce, subtract), ל�"מעיט (decrease, diminish, slight), ל�"תמעט (be reduced, become smaller, decrease, wane), ל�"קטין (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, reduce, scale down), ל�'רוע (derogate, detract, diminish, reduce, shear, subtract). (various references)

Hungarian

kisebbedik (to dwindle, to dwindle away, to grow less, to lessen), kisebbít (diminish, lower, minify, to attenuate, to bate, to extenuate, to lower, to soften), csökken (deaden, dwindle, let up, to abate, to attenuate, to be down, to deaden, to decrease, to drop, to dwindle, to ease down, to ease up, to extenuate, to fall off, to let up, to lower, to recede, to reduce, to remit, to sag, to slacken, to wane). (various references)

Indonesian

menyurutkan (withdraw). (various references)

Italian

sminuire (belittle, diminish), scemare (abate, decline), rimpicciolirsi (dwindle), mitigare (abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attanuate, attenuate, become mild, calm down, lighten, loosen, mince, mitigate, palliate, relax, relieve, soften, soothe), diminuire (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, reduce, reduction, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

治まる (to be at peace, to clamp down, to lessen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おさまる (to be at peace, to be delivered, to be in one's place, to be installed, to be obtained, to be paid, to be settled, to clamp down, to conduct oneself well, to govern oneself, to lessen, to settle into). (various references)

Korean 

줄이십시�". (various references)

Manx

jannoo ny sloo (diminish). (various references)

Norwegian

forminske (abate, abridge, decrease, diminish). (various references)

Pig Latin

essenlay

Portuguese

reduzir (baiting, Bate, bating, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, tapering, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), encurtar (abridge, contract, curtail, dock, shorten, take in), diminuir (abate, abridge, assuage, attenuate, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dyad, extenuate, fall, impair, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, Whittle), depreciar (belittle, debase, depreciate, derogate, deteriorate, detract, devaluate, diminish, misprise, misprize, undervalue), concessionário (assignee, concessionaire, concessioner, franchisee, grantee), atenuar (attenuate, blunt, dilute, diminish, mitigation, modish, mutation, qualify, reduce, relax, relieve, shade, slake, soft pedal, soften, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

subestima (underestimate, undervalue), se reduce (amount to, boil down, cancel, decrease, lower), se micşora (contract, decline, diminish, dwindle, ease, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, flag, grow less, grow smaller, shrink, shrink away), se împuţina (drop off, shrink), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), minimaliza (minimize, stultify, understate), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), descreşte (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, shorten, sink, subside, wane), împuţina (decrease, diminish). (various references)

Russian 

уменьшать (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, minify, narrow down, reduce, relieve, remit, retrench, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, ease, mince, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, redeem, soft pedal, soften, soothe, temper, tone down), smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, diminish, downsize, mitigate, pare down, rebate, reduce, slash, whittle away, whittle down). (various references)

Spanish

achicar (bail, bale, diminish, dwarf, humble, minimize, pump out, reduce, scoop out, scoop up, take in, to bale out, to dry out, unwater) to). (various references)

Swedish

minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane). (various references)

Thai

บรรเทา (ease, meliorate, mitigate, slake, still), ล�"ลง (boil down, dip, ebb, lower, roll back, slide). (various references)

Turkish

küçültmek (abase, belittle, decrease, derogate, diminish, dispraise, lower, make smaller, miniaturize, minify, minimize, reduce, shrink), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lower, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, stultify, take smb. down a peg), eksilmek (decrease, drop off, fall away, fall out, grow less, ooze away, taper off), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away). (various references)

Turkmen 

azalmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

недооцінювати (disparage, misjudge, misprise, misprize, overlook, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away). (various references)

Welsh

lleihau (abate, attenuate, decrease, diminish). (various references)

bi. (various references)

adtenuabit, adtenuabitur, adtenuabuntur, adtenuaris, adtenuasti, adtenuati, adtenuatus, adtenuetur, comminuam, comminuens, comminuerentur, comminuerunt, comminues, comminuet, comminuetis, comminuetur, comminuisset, comminuit, comminuite, comminuta, comminutus, constricti, constringantur, constringatur, constringe, constringes, constringit, constringitur, constringuntur, constrinxerant, constrinxerit, deminuerit, deminutae, detracta, detractaque, detractos, detraham, detrahas, detrahat, detrahe, detrahebant, detrahent, detrahentem, detrahentes, detrahentia, detrahentur, detrahere, detraherent, detraheret, detraheris, detrahes, detrahet, detrahetur, detrahit, detrahunt, detraxerint, detraxero, detraxerunt, detraxeruntque, detraxi, detraxisti, detraxistis, detraxit, eleva, elevabant, elevabantur, elevabatur, elevabis, elevabit, elevabitur, elevabuntur, elevamini, elevans, elevant, elevantia, elevantur, elevare, elevarentur, elevaretur, elevari, elevas, elevasset, elevasti, elevat, elevata, elevatae, elevataque, elevate, elevati, elevatis, elevatisque, elevator, elevatum, elevatus, elevaverint, elevaverit, elevaverunt, elevavit, elevavitque, eleventur, elevet, elevetur, infringere, infringetur, leva, levabantur, levabat, levabis, levabit, levabitur, levabo, levabunt, levans, levansque, levant, levantem, levantes, levare, levarent, levaret, levassent, levasset, levasti, levate, levatis, levatisque, levato, levaveris, levaverit, levavero, levaverunt, levavi, levavit, levavitque, levem, levemus, levites, levo, minuas, minue, minuentur, minuere, minues, minuetis, minuetur, minui, minuisti, minuit, minuitur, minuta, minutis, minutum, redigo (redactum), redigo, redactum, superelevent, tenueris, tenues. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lessen": lessened, lessening, lessens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lessen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alassene, cessen, Elsden, elsen, essan, essen, Eyssen, Fliessen, Jessen, Keussen, Lasestein, Lasken, Lassane, lassin, Laustsen, leasen, Leesen, Leissner, lesce, Lescek, lesen, lesex, leskean, Lesne, Lesnes, lessa, lesse, Lessem, lessend, lessing, less'n, Lessof, lessoun, Leysen, liesse, Liscano, liseen, Lissek, lissen, Lussey, Olaussen, Selsden, Selsun, Zeesen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lenses.

-1 letter: lenes, lense, seels, sense.

-2 letters: eels, else, eses, lees, lens, less, ness, seel, seen, sees, sels, sene.

-3 letters: eel, els, ens, ess, lee, nee, see, sel, sen.

-4 letters: el, en, es, ne.

+1 letter: endless, enisles, ensiles, flenses, lessens, nestles, netless, seniles, spleens.

+2 letters: blueness, boneless, cleanses, encloses, enolases, enslaves, evilness, fellness, fernless, flensers, fresnels, glegness, haleness, idleness, keelsons, lameness, lateness, leanness, lensless, lessened, lessoned, lewdness, licenses, likeness, lineless, linseeds, liveness, loneness, maleness, maneless, nameless, neckless, needless, nestlers, newsless, noblesse, noseless, noteless, paleness, realness, reinless, salesmen, selenous, selfness, senseful, sensible, setlines, silences, sleekens, snellest, soleness, tentless, toneless, tuneless, unsteels, veinless, ventless, vileness, wellness, wineless, zoneless.

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