verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ease/reduce/lighten the burden
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Smaller classes would ease the burden for teachers.
lighten sb's mood (= make someone feel happier )
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The sun was streaming in the window, but it did nothing to lighten his mood.
the lightening sky (= becoming lighter )
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A plane flew across the lightening sky.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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He would lighten up and have some fun-he would do something different, something new.
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Jones never learned to sing and rarely lightened up his sloganeering.
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Wild knows how to lighten up and he does it with the digital mastery and temperament he has exhibited for many decades.
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You're beginning to lighten up a bit.
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With Clinique, he believes that people today want to lighten up and be, well, happy.
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She advises those still aghast at the Pia Zadora fiasco to lighten up .
■ NOUN
atmosphere
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I smile at her to lighten the atmosphere .
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There was no breeze to lighten the atmosphere .
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The little mountains of earth scattered around didn't lighten the atmosphere , either.
burden
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We intend to lighten the burden of capital taxes and reform the taxation of savings.
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One of the main aims of the Michigan legislation was to lighten the prosecution's burden .
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Resist oppression, lighten the burden of the underdog, spread understanding and reason.
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Many poor people were grateful for anything which lightened their burden , others were resentful of patronage which went with it.
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One way or another, though, we must have the scope to lighten our self-imposed burden of debt.
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She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything, to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone.
load
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I trust that this review has helped at least somewhat to lighten that load .
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He said school districts should reduce teacher paperwork, hire more clerical help and lighten teaching loads to reduce stress.
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So how about a new 12-place setting dishwasher to lighten the load ?
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Having lightened its load , crews hoped to float the barge out to sea Tuesday.
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Most probably they were thrown into the sea to lighten the load when the ship found itself in difficulties.
mood
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Just trying to lighten the mood a bit.
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The sun was streaming in through the window, yet it did nothing to lighten his mood .
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Don't paint the red apple as seen, brighten and lighten its mood or subdue and cool its expression.
sky
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As the road lengthened and the sky began to lighten overhead, they were able to see their surroundings more clearly.
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Outside, the sky was just lightening up, which was more than I could say for myself.
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The sky was beginning to lighten .
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The upper reaches of the sky had lightened , but the valley was still sleeping in the pale blue predawn light.
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Look - the sky is lightening .
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Above him, the sky seemed to lighten .
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Outside, the sky was already lightening .
■ VERB
try
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Just trying to lighten the mood a bit.
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Children often bring their own little containers, trying to lighten some of their family's burden.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the sky lightened, we could see the distant mountains.
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As weather conditions got worse, Watts and Peters abandoned their photographic equipment in order to lighten the load.
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I'm sure you could lighten that suitcase a little if you only packed what you need.
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Maybe we should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara's workload.
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School administrators are looking at ways to lighten teachers' workloads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her Katherine is sparkling, strong and lightening fast.
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High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days.
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On March 19 it passed a regulatory reform bill, which is intended to lighten the weight of government on small businesses.
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Only in the Scherzo and in certain passages in the Finale do they begin to lighten the texture sufficiently.
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This is the claim that industrialism had lightened the intensity of human productive activity.
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Wild knows how to lighten up and he does it with the digital mastery and temperament he has exhibited for many decades.