to become or make sth become smaller, weaker, less important, etc. (written):
[V] The noise began to lessen. * [VN] to lessen the risk / impact / effect of sth * They gave her an injection to lessen the pain.
lessening noun [sing.,U]:
a lessening of tension
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lessen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lessen a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lessen is tagged as verb.
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