Lessen Definition

Lessen Sentence Examples

• It can lessen its enforcement of private property rights.

• More effective ventilation will materially lessen the deathrate.

• It is usual to reduce the quantity of proteid food to a minimum, in order to lessen the amount of nitrogenous waste to be excreted by the kidneys.

• In spite of his political reforms, he opposed the admission of the plebeians to the consulship and priestly offices; and, although these reforms might appear to be democratic in character and calculated to give preponderance to the lowest class of the people, his probable aim was to strengthen the power of the magistrates (and lessen that of the senate) by founding it on the popular will, which would find its expression in the urban inhabitants and could be most easily influenced by the magistrate.

• Time will lessen the pain, and you'll begin to feel stronger every day.