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lessening
adjectiveas indecreasing
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Example Sentences
The exhibition was fully funded by the institution’s Campaign for Music Education, an initiative focused on lessening music education costs and fostering music’s next generation.
Some homes were lost west of Lincoln, but the fire appeared to lose momentum with lessening winds.
Some options include expanding natural floodplains and removing impermeable pavement from cities — approaches that allow the soil to absorb more rainfall, lessening flood risk, and at the same time stockpiling water underground for future use.
And even though the data demonstrated modest benefit in research settings, it’s unknown whether the observed lessening of cognitive decline provides clinically meaningfully improvement for patients in the real world.
Per the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, studies have shown that food pharmacies are effective in lessening social, physical and financial barriers to healthy eating.
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Words related tolessening are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the wordlessening. Browse related words to learn more about word associations.
abridgementnounas inshortening, summary
nounas inshortening, summary
abridgmentnounas incondensation
nounas incondensation
appeasementnounas insatisfaction; pacification
nounas insatisfaction; pacification
contractionnounas indrawing in; shortening
nounas indrawing in; shortening
- abbreviating
- abbreviation
- abridgment
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confinement
- confining
- constriction
- curtailing
- curtailment
- cutting down
- decrease
- decreasing
- deflating
- deflation
- diminishing
- diminution
- drawing together
- dwindling
- elision
- evaporating
- evaporation
- lessening
- narrowing
- omission
- omitting
- receding
- recession
- reducing
- reduction
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- tensing
- tightening
- withdrawal
- withdrawing
cutnounas inreduction, diminution
nounas inreduction, diminution
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