0 present 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:
It is in this respect that statics became a lightening path to dynamics.
The short and lightening nature of the strikes in this context was in fact a better strategy for collective bargaining.
Many lightening industrial actions were results of close nexuses between mill management, local government in mill towns and police.
Likewise, it is suggested that the risk of prion transmission via bone substitutes is lower than the risk of death related to lightening or tornados.
They seem to foreshorten, fields press down on buildings, there is the ambiguous distance, he offers no painterly clues to depth, like lightening colour or adding blues towards the horizon.
Perhaps, indeed, there were many patrons who welcomed the changing appointment system of the middle of the century, since it brought a lightening of their own burdens.
An experienced ballerina was strapped down for a brain-scan: as she watched a video of fellow-dancers, the centres of her brain responsible for movement lit up like lightening.
Humor as tension relief0 lightening the heaviness.
