lessen

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I should imagine that staring at $200 does a lot to lessen the pain.

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Quick take

decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

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verb

make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

verb

wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lessen.

verb

make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

verb

wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

Example sentences

I should imagine that staring at $200 does a lot to lessen the pain.

That said, good intentions don't lessen impact on victims.

Staring at your bulging bank account can only do so much to lessen that pain, at least in the short term.

Which doesn't lessen what he does and his skills, but it does pull back the camera a bit to put it into a broader context.

Retroactive access to past journals does not lessen the desire for libraries to proactively gain access to future ones.

But certainly BSD does nothing to lessen the highly valuable software licensed with it. OpenSSH, sudo, and many others, for instance.

The net result is a lessening of founder leverage at the M&A stage because there is no viable alternative for exit.

That the intent punches thru the core of deliberate and on to the uncharted waters of gratuitous disregard does not lessen the intent.

Surfacing good links is part of the attraction of HN. Taking away the karma benefit for link sharing would lessen the incentive to share articles that don't actually need any discussion.

There are also people out there that if they took the time to listen to that story and ask questions they might be able to formulate a real idea on how to fix or lessen that pain.

Aaron was privileged in all these ways which most people in the grips of our legal system are not; and while his privileges don't lessen the tragedy of his death or the injustice of his situation, they are the reason his name has national recognition at this point.