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- English Word Lighten Definition To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.
- English Word Lighten Definition To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.
- English Word Lighten Definition To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
- English Word Lighten Definition To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- English Word Lighten Definition To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- English Word Lighten Definition To free from trouble and fill with joy.
- English Word Lighten Definition To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.
- English Word Lighten Definition To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.
- English Word Lighten Definition To cheer; to exhilarate.
- English Word Lightened Definition of Lighten
- English Word Lightening Definition of Lighten
- English Word Lighter Definition One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
- English Word Lighter Definition A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.
- English Word Lighter Definition To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
- English Word Lighterage Definition The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
- English Word Lighterage Definition The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
- English Word Lighterman Definition A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
- English Word Lightermen Definition of Lighterman
- English Word Lightful Definition Full of light; bright.
- English Word Lighthouse Definition A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.