lighten
/ˈlaɪ.tn̩/ verbo B2En español: aclarar, aclararse
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate. · to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
Plural lighten · He/she/it lightens · Pasado lightened · Participio pasado lightened · Forma en -ing lightening
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- lighten
- He/she/it
- lightens
- Pasado
- lightened
- Participio pasado
- lightened
- Forma en -ing
- lightening
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
The grasshoppers and sparrows entreated him not to cut down the tree that sheltered them, but to spare it, and they would sing to him and lighten his labours.
My heart is lightened already since I have confided my trouble to you.
"You can't bluff me, Count Sylvius." Holmes's eyes, as he gazed at him, contracted and lightened until they were like two menacing points of steel.
But before the doctor and the father could reach the room, the servants who were on the same floor had entered, and seeing Valentine pale and motionless on her bed, they lifted up their hands towards heaven and stood transfixed, as though struck by lightening.
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