| 词汇 | lessen |
| 释义 | lessen verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈles.ən/ us /ˈles.ən/ C1 If something lessens or is lessened, it becomes less strong: 减少，降低，减轻 A healthy diet can lessen the risk of heart disease.健康饮食能降低患心脏病的危险。 to become smaller or less decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment. lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease. lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join. reduceThey've just reduced the price. bring downThey are bringing down their prices. dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement. Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction dwindle dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off halve reduce reducible reduction resize retreat trough tumble lessen | American Dictionarylessen verb[ I/T ] us/ˈles·ən/ to become or make something smaller in amount or degree: [ T ]Keeping your weight down can lessen the risk of heart disease. lessen | Business Englishlessen verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈlesən/us to make something smaller, less noticeable, etc., or to become smaller, less noticeable, etc.: Corporate executives are keen to embrace "green technology" in order to lessen their dependence on fossil fuels. Increasing security procedures is the only way to lessen the risks of air travel. lessen the impact/importance/influence (of sth)Experts argue that a carbon tax would lessen the influence of special-interest groups in the climate change debate. Examples of lessenlessen We should all do our best to lessen poverty and suffering and make the world a more equal place. Then, a new structure was conceived in order to lessen the disadvantages of the earlier structure. These arguments do not lessen the responsibility of donors and lenders. If you could make perfect copies of me, the existence of the replicas would destroy my uniqueness without lessening my worth or value. Monetary instability was lessening towards the restoration of convertibility. However, some children may exhibit a stronger motivational system that helps them lessen their negative reactivity to novelty. This in turn could have made possible some containment of the discontent and given some hope to the people which might have lessened their anger. Increased infrastructural supply lessens the environmental costs of consumption, and, the other way round, increased consumption increases the marginal benefit of pollution-reducing infrastructure. Therefore, we only excluded juvenile snails from the analysis to lessen the effects of the dynamics or local heterogeneity of host population on parasite prevalence. Those who wanted instructions followed strictly placed this limitation to lessen potential burden and possible guilt on the part of the selected proxy. Many exclusivists are epistemically impoverished, and thus the epistemic status of their exclusive beliefs may well be lessened or defeated by religious diversity. The objective was to lessen superficial support for democracy by also asking about autocratic regimes. The absence of these risk factors is expected to lessen the chances of severe conflict. Yet the very thoroughness and meticulousness of this data-based approach may lessen the book's chances of appeal to a wider audience. The adoption of neo-liberal economic policies has lessened the importance of central bank independence for fighting inflation. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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