lighten

suomi-englanti sanakirja

lighten englannista suomeksi

  1. keventää

  2. kirkastua

  3. piristää

  4. rohkaistua

  1. valaista, kirkastaa

  2. keventyä, kevetä

  3. valaistua, kirkastua

  4. keventää

  5. keventyä

lighten englanniksi

  1. To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.

  2. (syn)

    (ux)

  3. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Henry Herringman|section=stanza 231, p. 59|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36598.0001.001

  4. To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.

  5. To flash lightning, to give off lightning.

  6. (RQ:Peele Old Wives Tale)

  7. (RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar) this dreadful night,That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roarsAs doth the lion.

  8. {{quote-book|en|year=1986|author=Helen Garner|title=Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987|publisher=Text Publishing|year_published=2022|page=182

  9. To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.

  10. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2) behold his eye,As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forthControlling majesty:

  11. To illuminate with knowledge.

  12. (quote-book)|chapter=Of the Soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof|title=Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle Expounded in Two Elegies|location=London|publisher=John Standish|page=10|url=http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=richard2&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

  13. To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.

  14. To make light or lighter in weight.

  15. To make less serious or more cheerful.

  16. (RQ:KJV)

  17. To become light or lighter in weight.

  18. To become less serious or more cheerful.

  19. To descend; to light.

  20. ''(w)''

  21. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.