Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A becoming light; the break of day. See lightning, 1.
- n. See lightning, 2.
- n. A brightening up, as of the mind or spirit.
- n. In metallurgy, the sudden brightening of the color of silver during cupellation when the metal reaches the point of greatest purity.
- n. The act or fact of becoming or making light or less heavy.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of lighten.
- n. medicine The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour
- n. nautical The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The process of changing to a lighter color.
WordNet 3.0
- n. changing to a lighter color
- n. descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped
Examples
“Begin lightening raids on predatory businesses and apprehending all illegal immigrants in the workplace.”
Wonk Room » CNN Airs Anti-Immigrant Front Group’s ‘Pro-Labor’ Incendiary Ad
“Nevertheless, plenty of light flooded the space from two ornate chandeliers and all the lightening from the camera crews.”
The Washington Post: A kid reporter learns the ropes covering Obama
“(The Philipines, as one example, sells many skin lightening soaps.)”
“That's why Johnson and Johnson makes billions selling dangerous and toxic skin lightening cream to beautiful brownskinned women in Africa and India - and that's why they and the other drug companies make billions selling useless (and often dangerous) weight loss products to healthy American women.”
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing
“Our various agencies have apparently developed excellent communication and raport with each other so that solving these incidents is happening in lightening time!”
“Cholera strikes so fast it is sometimes called the lightening disease.”
Voice of America: As Cholera Spreads in Haiti, Authorities Expect Disease to Remain for Years
“For this time around, I had no interest in lightening the recipe (I love bacon and it really makes this soup), but I did want to get away from the canned beans.”
Southwestern Black Bean Soup: It Isn't Super Healthy, But It Sure Is Tasty!
“She is also technically superb and can move like lightening from the most powerful empathy to conveying emotions: her humour is astringent but never cynical: she is a lovely person and one of my dearest friends.”
“Is skin lightening an attempt to beat racism (and therefore a result of racism) or simply a cosmetic desire?”
“I have killed numerous animals with SMALLER THAN NORMAL BULLET WEIGHTS with HIGHER THAN NORMAL VELOCITIES with these bullets and death is like chain lightening!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lightening’.
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[Open] Correctly-spelled words that l...
Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
(Here’s the original list with a slo...orignal, refect, collum, lightening, manakin, neumatic, mutch, miosis, radicle, tryptic, kyack, apatite and 119 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Pregnant with Possibilities (Includin...
For double the fun, see also Congenital Conditions.
obstetrics, obstetrician, neonatology, neonatologist, isolette, postpartum, prepartum, puerperal fever, induce, pregnancy, episiotomy, meconium and 324 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Elements
You never know until you try, you never want to try until you know.
line, stream, arrow, core, fire, dark, side, light, flare, flash, shine, black and 19 more...
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meld
A contemplation of the indo european root meaning of meldh-.
All lists are melds.lightening, enlightening, mix, blend, weld, meld, merge, emerge, coalesce, canasta, fuse, commingle and 27 more...
Tweets
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slumry not to be confushed with lightning. Jun 26, 2007