Meaning of LESSENING
| Pronunciation: | | l'esuning
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- [n] a change downward; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- [adj] becoming less in dimension or degree; "the lessening distance between us"
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LESSENING is a 9 letter word that starts with L. |
| | Synonyms: | | decrease, decreasing, drop-off |
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| | Antonyms: | | increase | | |
| | See Also: | | alteration, attrition, casualty, change, dwindling, dwindling away, modification, shrinkage, shrinking, sinking, waning | |
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| | Related Terms: | | abatement, abating, abridgment, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, chastening, contraction, contractive, curtailment, cushioning, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, deadening, declining, decrease, decreasing, decrement, decrescence, decrescendo, decrescent, deduction, deflation, deliquescent, demulsion, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, detraction, diminishing, diminishment, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disparagement, dulcification, dulling, dwindling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, impairment, languishing, languishment, leniency, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigating, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, on the wane, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, reductive, relaxation, relaxing, relief, remedy, remission, retraction, retrenchment, sagging, salving, scaling down, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subduing, subsiding, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, truncation, waning, weakening |
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