lessened

lessen['lesən]

• vt.
  • 减少，使变小，使缩小，使减轻：

    to lessen production costs

    降低生产成本

    to lessen the tension

    减少压力

  • [古语]轻视，藐视；贬低；抹杀：

    to lessen a person's feat

    抹杀某人的功绩

• vi.
  • 减少；变小；缩小；减轻：

    The difference between the city and the countryside lessens gradualy.

    城乡差别逐渐缩小。

• conj.
  • [美国方言] 除非(=unless)

• take someone's side
• Continued Stay Reviews
• berth deck
• psychrophilic
• nephometer
• mandolas
• retrogene
• send someone the frozen mitten
• practice
• brandy snap
• Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter
• cryptanalyzed
• Green
• grow sth↔out
• headcases
• flounder around
• legume
• Syntrophiidina
• Autoclip
• retrolingual
• aseptate
• in mint condition
• parallel folding
• keratomalacias
• trading up
• stilettoing
• slanderingly
• look lively（或〈旧〉 alive）
• spray-on
• slice sth ↔ off
• as numberless as the sands
• bionomics
• booster stations
• there's a first time for everything
• ultrasound image
• the disabled
• slid
• motor alexia
• delectuses
• come to someone's ears
• foam at the mouth
• flypost
• helvellas
• splint.er group
• spirillas
• club-shaped
• notarially
• Burnsville
• turn around also turn round
• Gonapodyaceae
• the fabric of sth
• reach one's majority
• N.A.A.F.I
• incommutable
• semioticss
• Dothan
• the devil / hell to pay
• tenderfoots
• constituents
• simulant
• disorderly conducts
• rust-colored
• Secchi, Pletro Angelo
• lift oneself by the bootstraps
• glassmaker
• magnetofluiddynamic
• dimethyl sulphoxide
• garden heliotrope
• exterminator
• piroshkis
• napier grass
• tinge
• aport
• Taylor process
• serpierite
• peeries
• dysplasias
• clausthalites
• Primary Circuits
• Sylopidae
• flagellar antigen
• thrus
• dunderpated
• cardiac decompensation
• pod people
• flight indicator
• magnetic flaw detector
• triphthongs
• above (all) praise
• pulser
• capital asset
• becomings
• ornithoscopy
• with one's heart in the right place
• immensely
• ingurgitations
• trailing
• evaluatives
• Latin America
• reexamining