make+lighter
31lighten — I verb 1) the sky was beginning to lighten Syn: become/grow/get lighter, brighten 2) the first touch of dawn lightened the sky Syn: brighten, make brighter, light up, illuminate 3) he used lemon juice to lighten his hair …
32lighten up — verb 1. make lighter or brighter The paint will brighten the room • Syn: ↑brighten, ↑lighten • Ant: ↑darken (for: ↑brighten) • Hypern …
33Amate — Part of the Huexotzinco Codex, written on amate. Amate (Spanish: amate from Nahuatl: āmatl) is a form of paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the pre Hispanic times. Amate paper was extensively produced an …
34ease — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Bohemianism, Easy Street, abandon, abate, abatement, abet, abundance, acceptance, adeptness, adroitness, advance, affability, affluence, aid, alienation, allay, allayment, alleviate, alleviation, allow for,… …
35unload — Synonyms and related words: alleviate, be light, break bulk, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash, cut under, debark, disburden, discharge, disembark, disembarrass, disencumber, dump, ease, effect a sale, empty, have little… …
36lighten — [v1] illuminate become light, brighten, flash, gleam, illume, irradiate, light, light up, make bright, shine; concept 624 Ant. blacken, darken, dim, dull lighten [v2] reduce weight, load allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assuage, attenuate, buoy,… …
37Lighten — Light en, v. t. [See {Light} not heavy.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To make less burdensome or …
38alleviate — Synonyms and related words: abate, allay, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be light, benumb, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, cure, cushion, damp, dampen, de emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, dilute,… …
39disburden — Synonyms and related words: abridge, alleviate, be light, bereave, bleed, break bulk, clear, curtail, cut off, deprive, deprive of, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disentitle, disinvolve, divest, drain,… …
40disencumber — Synonyms and related words: alleviate, be light, clear, disburden, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, ease, extricate, free, free up, have little weight, kick the beam, liberate, lighten, make light, make lighter, off… …
