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Lighten Up


Synonyms: Lighten Up

Synonyms: brighten (v), lighten (v). (additional references)
Antonym: darken (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lighten Up

Specialty definitions using "lighten up": Foot-lights. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lighten Up

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Screenplays

Lighten up before your arteries harden. (Akira; writing credit: Katsuhiro Ôtomo)

Hey! Lighten up! (House of Mouse; writing credit: Tracy Berna; Kevin Campbell)

No! You lighten up! (House of Mouse; writing credit: Tracy Berna; Kevin Campbell)

Movie/TV Titles

Lighten Up! (1977)

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

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Commercial Usage: Lighten Up

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Books

  • Lighten Up and Enjoy Life More: Everyday Ways to De-Stress Your Lifestyle (reference)

  • Lighten Up and Live Longer: A Collection of Jokes, Anecdotes, and Stories Guaranteed To Tickle Your Soul (reference)

  • Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life: Beyond Diet & Exercise: The Inner Path to Lasting Change (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Lighten Up

Computer Images:
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Spoken Usage: Lighten Up

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Lighten up, Mumzie Hughes.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lighten Up

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  lighten up

42

  salon selectives lighten up

19

  iowa lighten up

6

  en lighten up.com

3

  francis lighten up

2

  brooklyn lighten up

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lighten Up

Language Translations for "lighten up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

se relaxer, se détendre. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ightenlay upay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lighten Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-n-p-t-u"

-1 letter: penlight.

-2 letters: eluting, helping, lighten, pelting, uplight.

-3 letters: englut, gentil, glutei, gluten, gunite, length, lineup, lupine, lutein, luting, penult, piglet, pignut, pintle, plight, plinth, plunge, plutei, puling, pungle, tingle, unpile.

-4 letters: eight, elint, genip, getup, glint, guile, guilt, hinge, inept, ingle, inlet, input, legit, letup, light, lithe, lunet, lunge, lungi, lupin, neigh, night, teugh.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-n-p-t-u"
 

+3 letters: upholstering.

 

+5 letters: reupholstering, sprightfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lighten Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 67 68 74 65 6E      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 0065 006E      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4675737486718025582

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Bibliographic Items: "lighten up"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "lighten up"

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