Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To decrease; lighten.
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- verb transitive To
decrease ;reduce ;diminish ;lighten ;lighten up .
Etymologies
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From for- + lighten, but also continuing (in altered form) earlier forlyten ("to diminish"), from for- + lite + -en.
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