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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lighten .
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Examples
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As it quiets, the skin lightens and the reflectivity is less noticeable.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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Everybody was looking at me ... then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up.
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Everybody was looking at me ... then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up.
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Everybody was looking at me ... then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up.
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"He can say whatever about me ... but there are so many women like me, in my situation, that I just feel when there is this laughter, if you are in that situation out there, it kind of lightens it."
CBS 47: Local News 2009
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then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up.
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then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up.
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then all of a sudden everybody starts to smile and talk, the mood just kind of lightens up.
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What Vampire adds is a kind of knowing, self-referential jokiness that lightens the tension without dissipating it.
'Vampire Diaries' stakes its claim in a populated genre 2009
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If I did go home, Idol Gives Back, being a part of that, it lightens the blow a little bit.
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