Word Meanings - LESSEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. Charity . . . shall lessen his punishment. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office

Additional info about word: LESSEN

To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. Charity . . . shall lessen his punishment. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it. Atterbury. Syn. -- To diminish; reduce; abate; decrease; lower; impair; weaken; degrade. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LESSEN)

• Abate
• Terminate
• remove
• suppress
• lower
• reduce
• mitigate
• diminish
• moderate
• lessen
• subside
• decrease
• Abridge
• Abbreviate
• shorten
• curtail
• restrict
• tract
• condense
• epitomize
• compress
• Alleviate
• Lighten
• assuage
• soothe
• relieve
• remit
• Contract Abridge
• abbreviate
• narrow
• retrench
• form
• agree
• Decrease Diminish
• abate
• decline
• wane

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LESSEN)

• Increase
• grow
• amplify
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

Related words: (words related to LESSEN)

• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• EPITOMIZER
  An epitomist. Burton.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• HOIST
  To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• HOISTAWAY
  A mechanical lift. See Elevator.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.