lessening in English

verb

1

make or become less; diminish.

the years have lessened the gap in age between us

synonyms: reduce, make less/smaller, minimize, decrease, allay, assuage, alleviate, attenuate, palliate, ease, dull, deaden, blunt, moderate, mitigate, dampen, soften, tone down, dilute, weaken, grow less, grow smaller, decrease, diminish, decline, subside, abate, fade, die down/off, let up, ease off, tail off, drop (off/away), fall, dwindle, ebb, wane, recede, diminish, degrade, discredit, devalue, belittle

noun

drop-off, decrease

verb

reduce, grow less, diminish, fall, subside, decrease
reduce, make less/smaller, minimize, decrease, allay, assuage, alleviate, attenuate, palliate, ease, dull, deaden, blunt, moderate, mitigate, dampen, soften, tone down, dilute, weaken
grow less, grow smaller, decrease, diminish, decline, subside, abate, fade, die down/off, let up, ease off, tail off, drop (off/away), fall, dwindle, ebb, wane, recede
diminish, degrade, discredit, devalue, belittle
fall, decrease, diminish
subside
decrease, minify

Use "lessening" in a sentence

1. Lessening Impacts When Campfires Are Used.

2. The pain was already lessening.

3. Still, there is relief over the lessening of tensions.

4. The talks have resulted in a lessening of suspicion.

5. 24 synonyms for Alleviation: easing, relief, reduction, dulling, lessening, lightening, quelling

6. 22 synonyms for Curtailment: cutting, reduction, docking, lessening, cutback, cutting short

7. 18 synonyms for Cutback: reduction, cut, retrenchment, economy, decrease, lessening, abatement

8. Analgesia: a state of pain relief; an agent for lessening pain

9. This naturally leads to a lessening of tension in the body.

10. The weeks went by and the cat's sorrow seemed to be lessening.

11. I know. But why your sudden interest in lessening your salt intake?

12. The opposite word of Aggrandizement are Compression, Decline, Decrease, Drop, Lessening and Reduction.

13. Mary: I know. But why your sudden interest in lessening your salt intake?

14. Her trusting Donald like this, it was lessening the value of her trust in him.

15. Mary: I knowinging. But reason your sudden interest in lessening your salt in get?

16. To some extent, this may indicate a lessening preference for the institutions of marriage.

17. Synonyms for Allaying include easing, relieving, alleviating, reducing, assuaging, calming, diminishing, soothing, dulling and lessening

18. In other cases addition of the antimitotic actions results in a lessening of polar activity.

19. Synonyms for Abridging include cutting, clipping, condensing, contracting, lessening, trimming, abbreviating, abstracting, compressing and curtailing

20. Synonyms for Bating include ebbing, lessening, waning, aBating, moderating, slackening, lapsing, easing, checking and curbing

21. Synonyms for Alleviation include relief, dulling, reduction, comfort, ease, easing, lessening, lightening, mitigation and moderation

22. At last , the author prove that ESOP can bring many satisfactory results for State - owned shares lessening.

23. So however much he earned, she spent it, her demands growing and lessening with his income.

24. In the post-operative manométrie studies, LES pressure decreased, but achalasia and lessening motor disorders persisted.

25. A major climatic recession occurred, lessening the heavy and persistent rains in Central and Eastern Africa.

26. Synonyms for Curtailing include docking, shortening, reducing, cutting, cutting back, decreasing, diminishing, lessening, retrenching and truncating

27. The new project will greatly help these cyclists as well as lessening the effects of car pollution.

28. Curtailment noun cutting, reduction, docking, lessening, cutback, cutting short, retrenchment He supports the Curtailment of military spending

29. Beyond supporting drivers, ADAS can help increase road capacity while also lessening the environmental problems caused by traffic.

30. By lessening your own tension you help to relax others in your sphere; relaxation and tension are infectious.

31. We offer online consultation of Bach Flower Therapy, which will help you in lessening communication Apprehension in your behavior.

32. The significance of using thin type circular diamond sawblade is to reduce cutting width, thus lessening stone resources waste.

33. A healthy coral reef can reduce wave force by 97%, lessening the impact of storms and preventing erosion.

34. Unfortunately this is not always done, lessening the chances of full and effective usage of the aid provided.

35. She acquiesced with a full understanding of his reserve, and with no lessening in her dedication to his pleasure.

36. A better solution is for automakers to develop air bags that inflate more slowly, lessening the risk of injury.

37. Regular Alignment checks keep many components of your car performing its best including lessening the wear of your tires prematurely

38. While all these words mean "to make something less grievous," Alleviate implies temporary or partial lessening of pain or distress

39. How do Anodynes Work? Through various mechanisms but primarily by lessening sensitivity of the brain or the nervous system and causing analgesia

40. Alleviation: The act of alleviating, The act of removing in part, lessening, mitigating, or making easier to be endured: as, the Alleviation of taxes

41. Yet inconvenience for many and heavy loss for a few are mere trifles compared to the national tragedy of a dollar with ever-lessening value.”

42. I've been using Airborne for years and it works wonders in preventing sickness and also lessening the duration of sickness should you start

43. A Bland diet can also be an effective way to treat peptic ulcers, especially when coupled with certain lifestyle changes, such as lessening stress

44. The male child improved perceptions of friendliness and Adoptability of the pit bull while lessening the pit bull’s aggressiveness and perceived difficulty to train

45. Many brands of blood pressure lowering medications help to enhance Bradykinin production or to keep it from lessening within the body due to certain conditions.

46. Results:With this method, the drug stocks can be controlled within 7 days during the purchasing period, accelerating the hospital's capital turnover, lessening the frequency of purchases.

47. Its users can conduct input by means of the touch-sensitive panel without positioning key-press structure of prior arts, thus lessening size of the electronic equipment.

48. Suggestions are made for lessening the present sensitivity of the absorptiometer to instability in the arc source, and for the automatic recording of the precipitation and resolution characteristic.

49. The experimental results show that the address map table is constructed by making use of arboreal storage structure which have advantage of lessening the wasting time to complete a search process.

50. In 2003, the Portuguese municipalities were allowed to organize themselves into intermunicipal communities (comunidades intermunicipais) and metropolitan areas (áreas metropolitanas), which allowed for a lessening in the importance of the districts.