lessen

lessen
v
1. abate, decrease, diminish, lower, mitigate, bate; subside, ebb, let up, moderate, tail off, intermit, relax, slacken, remit; approach an end, come to a close, wind down, slow down, die down.
2. decline, fall off, taper off, wane, fade away; melt away, deliquesce; dwindle, run low, grow less; weaken, attenuate; fail, languish, waste away, shrivel, wither; decay, crumble, erode.
3. reduce, retrench, cut back, minify; shrink, constrict, contract, narrow; pare, cut, prune, truncate, crop, lop, dock, clip; condense, cut down, compress, epitomize, shorten, abridge, boil down; abbreviate, curtail, cut short.
4. allay, assuage, alleviate, Rare. lenify, palliate, appease, soothe, Archaic. attemper, relieve, ease, soften, cushion, mollify, lighten; quell, slake, deaden, dull, blunt, take the edge off of; modify, moderate, temper, qualify; minimize, extenuate, make light of, soft-pedal, play down, downplay, underestimate, underrate.
5. deduct, subtract, take away, take from; deplete, thin out, decimate.

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