0 past simple and past participle of lighten
2 to make a difficult situation or responsibility easier:
Getting a new assistant will lighten (= reduce) the workload considerably.
3 to make something lighter:
The tone of parental letters lightened in proportion to these signs of application.
Our task, as learners, is much lightened of metacognitive load because these tools have already been constructed for us.
The burden, though, is considerably lightened on our approach.
And it did, as the tone in the city's media lightened considerably.
Some chapters are also lightened a touch, by portraits of the historical heroes of continuum mechanics.
This darkened appearance lightened and disappeared during warming, indicating the melting of the ice within the nematode.
One possible explanation for this result is the lightened processing load experienced by both groups at the second exposure to the input.
The cognitive load involved in keeping track of the sequence of events may be lightened when other cues are present which generally correlate with different times.
