lighten

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate. transitive
    — to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets
  2. To alleviate; to reduce the burden of. transitive
    — Sorrow can be lightened by being openly brought out.
  3. To descend; to light.
    — Book of Common Prayer O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.
  4. To become brighter or clearer; to brighten. intransitive
  5. To make light or lighter in weight. transitive
  6. To flash lightning, to give off lightning. archaic,intransitive
    — Enter the Conjurer; it lightens and thunders […]
  7. To make less serious or more cheerful. transitive
    — They looked unto him, were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
  8. To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning. transitive
    — […] behold his eye, As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forth Controlling majesty:
  9. To become light or lighter in weight. intransitive
  10. To illuminate with knowledge. archaic
    — O Light which mak’st the Light, which makes the Day, Which setst the Eye without and Mind within, Lighten my spirit with one cleare heavenly ray, Which now to view it selfe doth first begin.
  11. To become less serious or more cheerful. intransitive

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
alighten forlighten lightener outlighten overlighten relighten unlightened lighten up lighten someone's purse

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lightnen, equivalent to light + -en.
词源 2
From Middle English lightnen, equivalent to light + -en.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English -en
English lighten
From light + -en.
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