Definizione monolingua

lessen

lessen (third-person singular simple present lessens, present participle lessening, simple past and past participle lessened)

1. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
   • 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff lack skills to cope with dementia patients”, Guardian:

     Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.

2. (intransitive) To become less.

lessen

1. Plural form of les.

lessen

1. Alternative spelling of ledsen.

Definizione dizionario lessen

	diminuire
	To make smaller.

abbassare

accorciare

decrescere

indebolire

rendere più basso

restringere

ridurre

ridursi

rimpicciolire

scemare

sminuire

Altri significati:

lessen (storm, terror, anger)

to become less

To make less; to diminish; to reduce.

To become less.

to make less