| 词汇 | lessening |
| 释义 | lessening present participle oflessen 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 damp dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away reducible reduction resize retreat rightsize telescope tumble Examples of lesseninglessening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Monetary instability was lessening towards the restoration of convertibility. The lessening of weight fluctuations and the containment of chronic thinness, as compared with the 1960s, gave further leverage for cushioning seasonal hunger. Additionally, the perception that this was so could lead to a certain lessening of social cohesion. One clear pressure was a lessening of financial support for the mission during the 1880s and 1890s. Robust glyptograptid lacking any proximal spines; fully septate with undulating septum lessening only slightly distally. The whole point of a risk assessment is to seek ways of lessening a hazard's potential effect. Inside algorithm, by cutting the second inside computation, avoids exploring the whole space of choices, lessening the search space significantly. For this reason, we assign each relation type a level of relevance-maintenance, ranging from 1.0 (no lessening of relevance) to 0.0 (no preservation of relevance). The study also shows a lessening of interand intra-group dialect differences with increased inter-group contact. Nor did the year 1800 bring with it any lessening of interest in caffeine. There is some evidence of a lessening of gender association of instrument learning in school. Earlier marriage-and some lessening in the mortality of married persons- would have tended to increase the number of fertile years of married couples. This trend was lessening the moral content of political debate. Management is usually aimed at achieving comfort, lessening pain, increasing mobility, preventing dependence and reducing the need and demand for other services. Other drawbacks are its continuing lack of international political acceptance, its own military limitations and constraints on involvement, and a lessening manpower pool. 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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