Definitions for lessens

lessens less·en

Spelling: [les-uh n]
IPA: /ˈlɛs ən/

Lessens is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in lessens (eelnsss).

Definitions for lessens

verb (used with object)

  1. to make less; reduce.
  2. Archaic. to represent as less; depreciate; disparage.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become less.

Origin of lessens

1300-50; late Middle English lessenen, lasnen (see less, -en1); replacing Middle English lessen

Examples for lessens

You may think I say this to lessen your regard for the good woman.

The company hopes the change will lessen the weight load for not only the pilots, but the planes.

This increased his astonishment, and did not lessen the gloom on his face.

We ask that you lessen her pain and therefore lessen the pain of all humanity.

No, he could not—which admission did not lessen the glow on his cheek.

But getting cyclists to don a hard-shelled helmet, which can lessen the risks of serious injury, has been a global challenge.

Cooperating with Assad is also the only feasible way, at present, to lessen the humanitarian nightmare in Syria.

Each 6000kg sculpture is lowered to the seabed where it is drilled into the substrate to lessen the effects of turbulent weather.

Suffice it that I have helped to lessen Kirk's horse by four of his rogues.

And that lurking vanity of the inferior to lessen his own inferiority did the rest.

Word Value for lessens
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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